"anticide" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "ant + -icide",
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  "etymology_text": "From ant + -icide.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "anticides",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1959, JCRR General Report, page 64",
          "text": "Therefore a parathion-treated upland pineapple orchard guarded with anticide throughout the growing seasons showed only negligible pineapple wilt infestation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, Handbook of Economic Entomology for South India, page 98",
          "text": "In addition to the common insecticides generally used, various special preparations are known which may be found useful against different kinds of insects, such as roachicides, anticides, culicides, larvicides, etc.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Queensland Agricultural Journal, page 567",
          "text": "Dusting the seed with an anticide, such as 20% lindane dust at 1 lb. of dust to 80 lb. of seed, will discourage them. Inoculated legume seed should not be mixed with dusted seed as the anticide will kill the bacteria.",
          "type": "quotation"
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      "glosses": [
        "A substance that kills ants."
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "formicide"
        }
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      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "anticide"
}

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      "expansion": "ant + -icide",
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  "etymology_text": "From ant + -icide.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "anticides",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "anticide (countable and uncountable, plural anticides)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1959, JCRR General Report, page 64",
          "text": "Therefore a parathion-treated upland pineapple orchard guarded with anticide throughout the growing seasons showed only negligible pineapple wilt infestation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, Handbook of Economic Entomology for South India, page 98",
          "text": "In addition to the common insecticides generally used, various special preparations are known which may be found useful against different kinds of insects, such as roachicides, anticides, culicides, larvicides, etc.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Queensland Agricultural Journal, page 567",
          "text": "Dusting the seed with an anticide, such as 20% lindane dust at 1 lb. of dust to 80 lb. of seed, will discourage them. Inoculated legume seed should not be mixed with dusted seed as the anticide will kill the bacteria.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A substance that kills ants."
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "formicide"
    }
  ],
  "word": "anticide"
}