单词 | insecticide |
释义 | insecticiden.1 a. One who or that which kills insects, an insect-killer; spec. a preparation used for destroying insects. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killer of animals > [noun] slaughterman1389 dog-killer1592 slaughterer1648 buffer1699 pork butcher1763 knacker1812 serpenticide1817 vulpicide1826 piggicide1837 canicide1852 ursicidea1861 birdicide1866 insecticide1866 horse-knacker1937 pigeoneer1944 piscicide1953 1866 Sat. Rev. 24 Mar. 350/2 A rich insecticide is not much, but he is better than that. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) ix. 225 Provided with a good bottle of insecticide. 1887 A. Newton in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 457/2 [The starling's] character as an insecticide..makes it the friend of the agriculturist. 1894 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3rd Ser. 5 311 Substances likely to prove useful as insecticides. b. attributive or as adj. Having the property of killing insects; insecticidal. (In quot. 1865, figurative.) ΚΠ 1865 Sat. Rev. 25 Nov. 663 Whether Sir George Grey will have recourse to this Parliamentary insecticide powder may be doubted. 1876 Times 4 Oct. The section ‘Insectologie Générale’ embraced..illustrations of the application of insects to ornament, and insecticide preparations of various kinds. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2019). insecticiden.2 The killing of insects. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > [noun] slaughtera1300 to make larder ofa1330 murdering?a1475 fall1575 butchering1609 ovicide1828 felicide1832 poultrycide1841 piscicide1847 vealing1847 kill1850 slaughterage1854 birdicide1862 apricide1864 insecticide1865 vulpicidism1865 vulpicide1873 serpenticide1882 tauricide1882 vaccicide1887 leporicide1914 culling1938 cull1958 1865 Sat. Rev. 14 Oct. 482/2 The patient believer..is bidden..to abjure the inhuman practice of insecticide. a1894 Ld. Bowen in Daily News 10 Apr. 6/3 An admirable woman, with perhaps too great a passion for insecticide. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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