weedkiller

English

Alternative forms

• weed killer

Etymology

From weed +‎ killer.

Noun

weedkiller (countable and uncountable, plural weedkillers)

1. A chemical agent that destroys unwanted plants (weeds) but not wanted ones (crops etc).

Synonyms

• weedicide

Hypernyms

• herbicide
• phytocide

Translations

chemical that destroys unwanted plants

• Bulgarian: хербицид m (herbicid)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 除草劑 / 除草剂 (zh) (chúcǎojì)

• Dutch: onkruidverdelger (nl) m, onkruidverdelgingsmiddel (nl) n
• Finnish: rikkaruohomyrkky
• German: Herbizid (de) n, Unkrautvernichtungsmittel n
• Hungarian: gyomirtó (hu), gyomirtó szer
• Italian: erbicida (it) m
• Japanese: 除草剤 (josōzai)
• Swedish: ogräsmedel n, herbicid (sv) c