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antilarval

antilarval adjective: counteracting larvae.

Adjective

antilarval (not comparable)

  1. Counteracting larvae.
    • From 1890 to 1940, antilarval drainage operations, environmental measures and the use of chemical products (mineral oil, Paris Green) were the basis of vector control.2008, Manguin Sylvie, Biodiversity of Malaria in the world, page 376

Origin of antilarval

From anti- + larval.

Questions about antilarval

What does antilarval mean?
Antilarval means counteracting larvae.
What part of speech is antilarval?
Antilarval is an adjective.

Words near antilarval in the dictionary

  1. antilaplacian
  2. antilaplacians
  3. antilapsarian
  4. antilapsarians
  5. antilapse
  6. antilarval
  7. antilaser
  8. antilatency
  9. antilatent
  10. antilatitudinarian
  11. antilattice

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