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snailicide

snailicide noun: a substance that kills snails.

Noun

snailicide (countable and uncountable, plural snailicides)

  1. A substance that kills snails.
    • Organic snailicides for Katayama nosophora. J. Pharm. Soc. Japan. 69, 396-8, 1949. Citado segundo Chem. Abstr. 44, 3196, 1950.1951, Anais da Faculdade de Farmácia e Odontologia da Universidade de São Paulo, page 50
    • The object of the project was to determine the possibility of using Sodium Pentachlrophenate as a snailicide and to see to what extent its use was practical, economical and efficient for the control of snails in our water courses;1951, Annual Report of the Commissioner of Health, Puerto Rico. Dept. of Health, page 134
  2. (rare) The killing of a snail.
    • commit snailicide[…]SNAIL, SLUG & INSECT KILLER1979, Sunset, page 154
    • Boy One and his friends delighted in our method of snailicide: partly because we paid well (five cents per snail) but also because they got to stay up late to get the job done.2001 September 19, Katie Watts, “All bark, no bite”, in Petaluma Argus-Courier, volume 147, number 6, page 15, column 4

Examples of snailicide in a sentence

  • A snailicide is for killing snails and slugs.1957 March 24, “What Those Names On Spray Guns Mean”, in The Miami Herald, 47th year, number 112, page 10-B, column 3:
  • Liquid snailicides will also give satisfactory results.1957, American Orchid Society Bulletin, page 782:
  • Scatter slug bait or dust with snailicide in shady places and around seed beds and cold frames before the slugs chew up seedlings as well as leaves of many plants.1959 April 12, “What To Do This Week”, in The Lima Citizen, second year, number 285, Lima, Ohio, page D-8, column 2:
  • Slugs—metaldehyde in prepared baits or in snailicide1959, Plants & Gardens, page 54:

Forms of snailicide

pluralsnailicides

Origin of snailicide

From snail + -icide.

Questions about snailicide

What does snailicide mean?
Snailicide means a substance that kills snails.
How do you use snailicide in a sentence?
A snailicide is for killing snails and slugs.
What part of speech is snailicide?
Snailicide is a noun.
What is the plural of snailicide?
The plural of snailicide is snailicides.

Words near snailicide in the dictionary

  1. snailesque
  2. snailfish
  3. snailfishes
  4. snailflower
  5. snailflowers
  6. snailicide
  7. snailicides
  8. snailier
  9. snailiest
  10. snailing
  11. snailish

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