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How to pronounce pesticide
IPA transcription: ['pɛstə,saɪd]
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Noun
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a chemical used to kill pests (as rodents or insects)
Usage examples
- Many pest insects have been building up an immunity to these pesticides.
- Additionally, pesticide use negatively impacts colony development and size.
- Do you worry about pesticides?
- It is commonly used as a pesticide against slugs, snails, and other gastropods.
- Do you worry about pesticides?
- This legislation removed pesticide residue tolerances from Delaney Clause constraints.
- Triethyl phosphate is also a common intermediate in the manufacture of pesticides.
- The production of pesticides is an important industry.
- Cryolite is used as an insecticide and a pesticide.
- Some bryophytes have been found to produce natural pesticides.