| 单词 |
insecticide |
| 释义 |
▪ I. insecticide1|ɪnˈsɛktɪsaɪd|
[f. L. insect-ūm insect + -cīda, -cide 1, killer.]
One who or that which kills insects, an insect-killer; spec. a preparation used for destroying insects.
1866Sat. Rev. 24 Mar. 350/2 A rich insecticide is not much, but he is better than that. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Europe ix. (1894) 225 Provided with a good bottle of insecticide. 1887A. Newton in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 457/2 [The starling's] character as an insecticide..makes it the friend of the agriculturist. 1894Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. June 311 Substances likely to prove useful as insecticides.
b. attrib. or as adj. Having the property of killing insects; insecticidal. (In quot. 1865, fig.)
1865Sat. Rev. 25 Nov. 663 Whether Sir George Grey will have recourse to this Parliamentary insecticide powder may be doubted. 1876Times 4 Oct., The section ‘Insectologie Générale’ embraced..illustrations of the application of insects to ornament, and insecticide preparations of various kinds.
▪ II. inˈsecticide2
[f. as prec. + -cide 2.]
The killing of insects.
1865Sat. Rev. 14 Oct. 482/2 The patient believer..is bidden..to abjure the inhuman practice of insecticide. a1894Ld. Bowen in Daily News 10 Apr. 6/3 An admirable woman, with perhaps too great a passion for insecticide. |
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