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filaricide

filaricide noun: the destruction of filaria.

Noun

filaricide (plural filaricides)

  1. The destruction of filaria.
  2. A pesticide that kills nematodes of the superfamily Filarioidea.

filaricide meaning in Tamil

filaricide in Tamil

புழுக்கொல்லி

Forms of filaricide

pluralfilaricides

Origin of filaricide

From translingual Filaria + -cide, type genus of the superfamily Filarioidea.

Words formed from filaricide

Questions about filaricide

What does filaricide mean?
Filaricide means the destruction of filaria.
What is filaricide in Tamil?
Filaricide in Tamil is புழுக்கொல்லி. See Filaricide meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is filaricide?
Filaricide is a noun.
What is the plural of filaricide?
The plural of filaricide is filaricides.

Words near filaricide in the dictionary

  1. filarian
  2. filarias
  3. filariases
  4. filariasis
  5. filaricidal
  6. filaricide
  7. filaricides
  8. filarid
  9. filarids
  10. filariform
  11. filariid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: filaricide (page history and authors); filaricide (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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