请输入您要查询的单词:

 

单词 slugicide
释义

slugicide

English

Etymology

From slug + -icide.

Noun

slugicide (countable and uncountable, plural slugicides)

  1. A substance that kills slugs.
    • 1906, Eden Phillpotts, My Garden, page 62:
      I have applied slugicides in every variety that the advertisements offer; but the slugs persist.
    • 1914, Dorothy Lowe, “Sowing seeds. Weeding. Mulching. Cuttings. Runners and Layers. Potting. Syringing. Pruning fruit trees and shrubs.”, in A Book of Simple Gardening, Cambridge: at the University Press, page 16:
      Certain slugicides are excellent preventives against slugs and do not hurt the seedlings;
    • 1931 November 13, M. Southern, “Alien”, in The Manchester Guardian, number 26,580, page 16, column 1:
      They all talk, telling of the Dorothies that did so well last year, the delphiniums the slugs ate, and getting advice thrown in with more Dorothies and cans of slugicide—guaranteed free of arsenic—and packets of seed.
    • 1937, New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, page 280:
      No experimental work has been conducted in New Zealand to determine the relative value of this compound as compared with other “slugicides,” but the writer has found it useful in checking an outbreak of slugs found to be infesting field cabbages.
随便看

 

国际大辞典收录了7408809条英语、德语、日语等多语种在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的翻译及用法,是外语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2023 idict.net All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间:2024/8/8 5:19:08