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verminicide

verminicide noun: a substance that kills vermin.

Noun

verminicide (countable and uncountable, plural verminicides)

  1. A substance that kills vermin
    • But at Sam Suffy there were worse than mosquitoes. During the summer verminicide became a necessary item in the “bazar.”1925 September, Edmund Candler, “The Dinosaur’s Egg”, in Blackwood’s Magazine, volume CCXVIII, number MCCCXIX, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood & Sons, […], section XII (The Simple Life at...

Forms of verminicide

pluralverminicides

Origin of verminicide

From vermin + -icide.

Questions about verminicide

What does verminicide mean?
Verminicide means a substance that kills vermin.
What part of speech is verminicide?
Verminicide is a noun.
What is the plural of verminicide?
The plural of verminicide is verminicides.

Words near verminicide in the dictionary

  1. vermine
  2. vermined
  3. verminer
  4. verminers
  5. verminicidal
  6. verminicide
  7. verminicides
  8. verminiferous
  9. verminlike
  10. verminly
  11. verminous

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