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nematicide

nematicide noun: any pesticide designed to kill nematodes (roundworms).

Noun

nematicide (plural nematicides)

  1. Any pesticide designed to kill nematodes (roundworms).
    • Villagers use the nematicides Furadan and Mocap mostly in banana cultivation, whereas Basudin and Sevin are the most frequently used agrochemicals applied exclusively on nonbanana crops.1998, Lawrence S. Grossman, The Political Ecology of Bananas, page 197

nematicide meaning in Tamil

nematicide in Tamil

உருளைப் புழு கொல்லி, குடற்புழுக் கொல்லி, நூற்புழுக்கொல்லி

Forms of nematicide

pluralnematicides

Origin of nematicide

From nemati- + -cide; compare nematocide.

Words formed from nematicide

Questions about nematicide

What does nematicide mean?
Nematicide means any pesticide designed to kill nematodes (roundworms).
What is nematicide in Tamil?
Nematicide in Tamil is உருளைப் புழு கொல்லி, குடற்புழுக் கொல்லி, நூற்புழுக்கொல்லி. See Nematicide meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is nematicide?
Nematicide is a noun.
What is the plural of nematicide?
The plural of nematicide is nematicides.

Words near nematicide in the dictionary

  1. nemathelminth
  2. nemathelminths
  3. nematic
  4. nematically
  5. nematicidal
  6. nematicide
  7. nematicides
  8. nematicity
  9. nematicon
  10. nematicons
  11. nematics

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