mosquiticide

English

Noun

mosquiticide (countable and uncountable, plural mosquiticides)

1. Alternative form of mosquitocide.
   • 1914 July 17, “The Deadly Mosquito”, in Wilkes-Barre Times Leader‎^[1], 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.