blatticide

English

Etymology

From Blatta +‎ -icide.

Noun

blatticide (plural blatticides)

1. A substance that kills cockroaches.

   Synonyms: (rare) cockroachicide, (US) roachicide

   • 2006, The Mouse in Biomedical Research: Normative Biology, Husbandry, and Models, page 430:

     A new group of blatticides are the insect growth regulators (IGR). These chemicals act like the growth hormones of insects or block development of chitin, the major building block of the cockroach's exoskeleton.