verminicide

English

Etymology

From vermin +‎ -icide.

Noun

verminicide (countable and uncountable, plural verminicides)

1. A substance that kills vermin
   • 1925 September, Edmund Candler, “The Dinosaur’s Egg”, in Blackwood’s Magazine, volume CCXVIII, number MCCCXIX, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood & Sons, […], section XII (The Simple Life at Nurien), page 313, column 2:

     But at Sam Suffy there were worse than mosquitoes. During the summer verminicide became a necessary item in the “bazar.”