"roachicide" meaning in English

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        "2": "roach",
        "3": "icide"
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      "expansion": "roach + -icide",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From roach + -icide.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "roachicides",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "American English",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1944 November, William S. Gevurtz, Albert J. Michel, “Medical Experiences on an APD”, in United States Naval Medical Bulletin, volume 43, number 5, page 931",
          "text": "Cockroaches cannot be completely eliminated, and only with constant spraying appropriate roachicides will they be kept under control.",
          "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": "1975, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Extension: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture; House of Representatives, Ninety-Fourth Congress, First Session, Serial No. 94-O, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 528",
          "text": "Inadequate availability of termiticides, rodenticides and roachicides in the ghetto may turn our post bicentennial years into a nightmare.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Charley Rosen, The House of Moses All-Stars, Seven Stories Press, page 244",
          "text": "High school locker rooms smell from sweat, mildew, roachicide, and pimple cream.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A substance that kills cockroaches."
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          "cockroach",
          "cockroach"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) A substance that kills cockroaches."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "blatticide"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "rare"
          ],
          "word": "cockroachicide"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
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        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "roachicide"
}

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        "2": "roach",
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      },
      "expansion": "roach + -icide",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From roach + -icide.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "roachicides",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "expansion": "roachicide (countable and uncountable, plural roachicides)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1944 November, William S. Gevurtz, Albert J. Michel, “Medical Experiences on an APD”, in United States Naval Medical Bulletin, volume 43, number 5, page 931",
          "text": "Cockroaches cannot be completely eliminated, and only with constant spraying appropriate roachicides will they be kept under control.",
          "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": "1975, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Extension: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture; House of Representatives, Ninety-Fourth Congress, First Session, Serial No. 94-O, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 528",
          "text": "Inadequate availability of termiticides, rodenticides and roachicides in the ghetto may turn our post bicentennial years into a nightmare.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Charley Rosen, The House of Moses All-Stars, Seven Stories Press, page 244",
          "text": "High school locker rooms smell from sweat, mildew, roachicide, and pimple cream.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A substance that kills cockroaches."
      ],
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        [
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) A substance that kills cockroaches."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "blatticide"
        },
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          "tags": [
            "rare"
          ],
          "word": "cockroachicide"
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  "word": "roachicide"
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