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blatticides

blatticides is the plural of blatticide.

Meaning of blatticide

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

Questions about blatticides

What is blatticides the plural of?
Blatticides is the plural of blatticide.

Words near blatticides in the dictionary

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

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