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mosquiticide

mosquiticide is the alternative form of mosquitocide.

Meaning of mosquitocide

Noun

mosquitocide (countable and uncountable, plural mosquitocides)

  1. Any substance that kills mosquitos.
    • Six types of sprayers were tried. […] Mixed catches of mosquitoes were used, the majority being Armigeres obturans, a hardy culecine^([sic]) mosquito. Measured quantities of mosquitocide of known potency were blown off from the various sprayers and the room kept closed for half an hour.1939, Report of the Haffkine Institute, Bombay: Haffkine Institute, pages 54–55

Forms of mosquiticide

pluralmosquiticides

Questions about mosquiticide

What is mosquiticide the alternative form of?
Mosquiticide is the alternative form of mosquitocide.

Words near mosquiticide in the dictionary

  1. mosqueyards
  2. mosquish
  3. mosquital
  4. mosquitarium
  5. Mosquitia
  6. mosquiticide
  7. mosquito
  8. mosquito bar
  9. mosquito bars
  10. mosquito bite
  11. mosquito bites

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mosquiticide (page history and authors); mosquitocide (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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