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mothicide

mothicide noun: a substance that kills moths.

Noun

mothicide (countable and uncountable, plural mothicides)

  1. A substance that kills moths.
    • DON’T BURN YOUR MONEY / By using inferior mothicides in storing your winter clothing.1903 March 27, Lexington Leader, Lexington, Ky., page 8
    • Tons of naphthalene, paradichlorbenzene, camphor, and other reputed “mothicides” have been employed to kill moths.1928 January, W. ZurLinden, “Moths”, in The Supplement to the United States Naval Medical Bulletin Published for the Information of the Hospital Corps of the Navy, volume XII, number 1, Washington...

mothicide meaning in Tamil

mothicide in Tamil

அந்துகொல்லி

Forms of mothicide

pluralmothicides

Origin of mothicide

From moth + -icide.

Questions about mothicide

What does mothicide mean?
Mothicide means a substance that kills moths.
What is mothicide in Tamil?
Mothicide in Tamil is அந்துகொல்லி. See Mothicide meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mothicide?
Mothicide is a noun.
What is the plural of mothicide?
The plural of mothicide is mothicides.

Words near mothicide in the dictionary

  1. motherworld
  2. motherworlds
  3. motherwort
  4. motherworts
  5. mothery
  6. mothicide
  7. mothicides
  8. mothier
  9. mothiest
  10. mothing
  11. mothless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mothicide (page history and authors); mothicide (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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