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blatticide

blatticide noun: a substance that kills cockroaches.

Noun

blatticide (plural blatticides)

  1. A substance that kills cockroaches.
    • A new group of blatticides are the insect growth regulators (IGR). These chemicals act like the growth hormones of insects or block development of chitin, the major building block of the cockroach's exoskeleton.2006, The Mouse in Biomedical Research: Normative Biology, Husbandry, and Models, page 430

Synonyms of blatticide

Forms of blatticide

pluralblatticides

Origin of blatticide

From Blatta + -icide.

Questions about blatticide

What does blatticide mean?
Blatticide means a substance that kills cockroaches.
What part of speech is blatticide?
Blatticide is a noun.
What is the plural of blatticide?
The plural of blatticide is blatticides.

Words near blatticide in the dictionary

  1. blatterite
  2. Blatterman
  3. blatteroon
  4. blatteroons
  5. blatters
  6. blatticide
  7. blatticides
  8. blattid
  9. blattids
  10. blatting
  11. blattinine

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