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slugicide

slugicide noun: a substance that kills slugs.

Noun

slugicide (countable and uncountable, plural slugicides)

  1. A substance that kills slugs.
    • I have applied slugicides in every variety that the advertisements offer; but the slugs persist.1906, Eden Phillpotts, My Garden, page 62
    • Certain slugicides are excellent preventives against slugs and do not hurt the seedlings;1914, Dorothy Lowe, “Sowing seeds. Weeding. Mulching. Cuttings. Runners and Layers. Potting. Syringing. Pruning fruit trees and shrubs.”, in A Book of Simple Gardening, Cambridge: at the University...

Forms of slugicide

pluralslugicides

Origin of slugicide

From slug + -icide.

Questions about slugicide

What does slugicide mean?
Slugicide means a substance that kills slugs.
What part of speech is slugicide?
Slugicide is a noun.
What is the plural of slugicide?
The plural of slugicide is slugicides.

Words near slugicide in the dictionary

  1. sluggy
  2. slughorn
  3. slughorne
  4. slughornes
  5. slughorns
  6. slugicide
  7. slugicides
  8. slugified
  9. slugifies
  10. slugify
  11. slugifying

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