pesticide
Anything, especially a synthetic substance but also any substance (e.g. sulfur), or virus, bacterium, or other organism, which kills or suppresses the activities of pests.
A kind of
- chemical
Kinds of pesticide
- insecticide
- phosphine
- sheep dip
- spray
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “pesticide” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.