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mosquitocides

mosquitocides is the plural 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

Questions about mosquitocides

What is mosquitocides the plural of?
Mosquitocides is the plural of mosquitocide.

Words near mosquitocides in the dictionary

  1. mosquito wire
  2. mosquito-eater
  3. mosquito-eaters
  4. mosquitocidal
  5. mosquitocide
  6. mosquitocides
  7. mosquitoed
  8. mosquitoes
  9. mosquitoey
  10. mosquitofish
  11. mosquitofishes

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