"insecticide" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-insecticide.wav [US] Forms: insecticides [plural]
Etymology: From French insecticide, as insect + -icide. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fr|insecticide}} French insecticide, {{suffix|en|insect|icide}} insect + -icide Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} insecticide (countable and uncountable, plural insecticides)
  1. A substance used to kill insects. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Death Related terms: insect, insecticidal Translations (A substance used to kill insects): միջատասպան (miǰataspan) (Armenian), insecticida [masculine] (Catalan), 殺蟲劑 (Chinese Mandarin), 杀虫剂 (shāchóngjì) (Chinese Mandarin), insekticid [masculine] (Czech), insecticide [neuter] (Dutch), skordýratýnari [masculine] (Faroese), hyönteismyrkky (Finnish), insecticide [masculine] (French), insecticida [masculine] (Galician), Insektengift [neuter] (German), Insektizid [neuter] (German), εντομοκτόνο (entomoktóno) [neuter] (Greek), rovarirtó (Hungarian), insektisida (Indonesian), feithidicíd [feminine] (Irish), feithidnimh [feminine] (Irish), insetticida [feminine] (Italian), 殺虫剤 (satchūzai) (alt: さっちゅうざい) (Japanese), жәндікжойғы (jändıkjoiğy) (Kazakh), 살충제 (salchungje) (Korean), insecticida [feminine] (Latin), insektisid (Malay), chʼosh bee yigání (Navajo), insektmiddel [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), insektmiddel [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), حشرهکش (hašare-keš) (Persian), środek owadobójczy [masculine] (Polish), inseticida [masculine] (Portuguese), insecticid [neuter] (Romanian), инсектици́д (insekticíd) [masculine] (Russian), insecticida [feminine] (Spanish), dawa ya wadudu [class-10, class-9] (Swahili), insektsgift [neuter] (Swedish), pamatay-kulisap (Tagalog), ยาฆ่าแมลง (yaa-kâa-má-lɛɛng) (Thai), འབུ་སྨན ('bu sman) (Tibetan), insektisit (Turkish)

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      "sense": "A substance used to kill insects",
      "tags": [
        "class-10",
        "class-9"
      ],
      "word": "dawa ya wadudu"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "A substance used to kill insects",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "insektsgift"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "A substance used to kill insects",
      "word": "pamatay-kulisap"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "yaa-kâa-má-lɛɛng",
      "sense": "A substance used to kill insects",
      "word": "ยาฆ่าแมลง"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "'bu sman",
      "sense": "A substance used to kill insects",
      "word": "འབུ་སྨན"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "A substance used to kill insects",
      "word": "insektisit"
    }
  ],
  "word": "insecticide"
}

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