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nematocide

nematocide is the alternative form of nematicide.

Meaning of nematicide

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

Forms of nematocide

pluralnematocides

Origin of nematocide

From nemato- + -cide; compare nematicide.

Questions about nematocide

What is nematocide the alternative form of?
Nematocide is the alternative form of nematicide.

Words near nematocide in the dictionary

  1. nematocalyx
  2. nematoceran
  3. nematocerans
  4. nematocerous
  5. nematocidal
  6. nematocide
  7. nematocides
  8. nematocin
  9. nematocyst
  10. nematocystic
  11. nematocysts

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