mosquiticide
English
Etymology
From mosquito + -icide.
Noun
mosquiticide (countable and uncountable, plural mosquiticides)
- A substance that kills mosquitos.
- 1914 July 17, “The Deadly Mosquito”, in Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.:
- Marvelous schemes for mosquiticide by ether means have been conceived—but they all fall through.
- 1953, Parasitology, page 79:
- 40 % mortality was obtained and a reduction in the number of larvæ on subsequent days, which points to the fact that DDT’s effect was greater as a mosquiticide than as a larvicide.
- 1996 July 23, William Hartston, “Unending battle of British abroad”, in The Independent, London, page IV:
- Our first visit to the anti-mosquito shelf of the supermarket revealed three basic weapons in the armoury – you can spray them with mosquiticide, fumigate them with the smoke from smouldering green coils, or use a plug-in device whose mode of operation was impossible to properly ascertain.
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Synonyms
- culicide