culicifuge
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From culicine and Latin fugō (“to drive away”).
Noun
[edit]culicifuge (plural culicifuges)
- An agent that repels culicine mosquitoes.
- 1919 June 14, “Mosquitoes and Culcifuges”, in The Journal of the American Medical Association, page 1770:
- The “treatment” involved coating the exposed arm from the wrist to the elbow with the alleged culicifuge.