Word.ws English Dictionary

pesticides

pesticides is the plural of pesticide.

Meaning of pesticide

Noun

pesticide (countable and uncountable, plural pesticides)

  1. Anything, especially a synthetic substance but also any substance (e.g. sulfur), or virus, bacterium, or other organism, which kills or suppresses the activities of pests.
    • “Twelve pesticides commonly applied to citrus groves are slated for study in the project’s plots,” reports Tom S. Bellows, UC Riverside assistant entomologist. They include four acaricides (Morestan, Kelthane, Pictran, Vendex), four thripsicides (Cygon, Carzol, Orthene, Sabadilla), and four...1983 May 26, “Pesticide residue effects under study”, in The Californian, volume 25, number 16, Temecula, Calif., page A-11

Questions about pesticides

What is pesticides the plural of?
Pesticides is the plural of pesticide.

Words near pesticides in the dictionary

  1. pesthouse
  2. pesthouses
  3. pesticidal
  4. pesticidally
  5. pesticide
  6. pesticides
  7. pestiduct
  8. pestiducts
  9. pestiferous
  10. pestiferously
  11. pestiferousness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pesticides (page history and authors); pesticide (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pesticides.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pesticides. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.