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herbicide

UK/ˈhɜːbɪsaɪd//ˈ(h)ɝbɪsaɪd/

herbicide noun: a substance used to kill plants.

Noun

herbicide (countable and uncountable, plural herbicides)

  1. A substance used to kill plants.
    Synonyms:
    phytocide

herbicide meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Tagalog and Malay

herbicide in Tamil

களைக்கொல்லி, களைநாசினி

herbicide in Kannada

ಕಳೆಕುಲಿ, ಕೆಳೆಯಳಿಪ

herbicide in Tagalog

substance used to kill plants
lasonlamon

herbicide in Malay

substance used to kill plants
herbisid, racun herba
More languagesFewer languages
herbicide in Indonesian
herbisida
herbicide in Thai
ยาฆ่าหญ้า yaa-kâa-yâa

Examples of herbicide in a sentence

  • The farmer coapplied fertilizer and herbicide to the field.
  • Similar to topramezone, herbicides such as chlorotoluron and metflurazon can be N-demethylated to their primary metabolites.
  • Half-lives of PSII herbicides ametryn, atrazine, diuron, hexazinone and tebuthiuron were consistently greater than a year, indicating high persistence.

All 11 example sentences with herbicide

Synonyms of herbicide

Forms of herbicide

pluralherbicides

Plural of herbicide: herbicides

Origin of herbicide

From herb + -icide.

Words formed from herbicide

Questions about herbicide

What does herbicide mean?
Herbicide means a substance used to kill plants.
What is herbicide in Tamil?
Herbicide in Tamil is களைக்கொல்லி, களைநாசினி. See Herbicide meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is herbicide?
Herbicide is a noun.
How do you pronounce herbicide?
Herbicide is pronounced /ˈhɜːbɪsaɪd/ (UK).
What is the plural of herbicide?
The plural of herbicide is herbicides.

Words near herbicide in the dictionary

  1. herbfield
  2. herbfields
  3. herbicarnivorous
  4. herbicidal
  5. herbicidally
  6. herbicide
  7. herbicides
  8. herbicolin
  9. herbicolins
  10. herbicolous
  11. herbid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: herbicide (page history and authors); herbicide (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); herbicide (Kannada 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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