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scalicides

scalicides is the plural of scalicide.

Meaning of scalicide

Noun

scalicide (countable and uncountable, plural scalicides)

  1. A substance that kills scale insects.
    • Mr. Hess. The only Japanese cherry trees that come under my jurisdiction are those that are planted in the Botanic Garden, and they do have a little scale, some of them. We sprayed them last fall with arsenic, for the biting or eating insects, and we sprayed them later on with scalicide for the...1930, Legislative Establishment Appropriation Bill, 1931: Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations […], Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, page 291

Questions about scalicides

What is scalicides the plural of?
Scalicides is the plural of scalicide.

Words near scalicides in the dictionary

  1. Scalians
  2. Scalias
  3. scalic
  4. Scalici
  5. scalicide
  6. scalicides
  7. Scalicis
  8. scalid
  9. scalidophoran
  10. scalidophorans
  11. scalids

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