parasiticide

English

Etymology

From parasite +‎ -cide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpæɹəˈsɪtɪsaɪd/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

parasiticide (plural parasiticides)

1. Any substance used to kill parasites.
   • 2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Dung beetles dived into delicious organic cowpats left by longhorn cattle that hadn’t been fed wormers and parasiticides

Translations

substance used to kill parasites

• Finnish: loismyrkky
• French: parasiticide (fr) m or f
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: sníkladeyðir m
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: środek pasożytobójczy m
• Portuguese: parasiticida m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: паразитици́д m (paraziticíd)
• Spanish: parasiticida (es) m or f