What does anticide mean?
Anticide means A substance that kills ants..
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A substance that kills ants..
Therefore a parathion-treated upland pineapple orchard guarded with anticide throughout the growing seasons showed only negligible pineapple wilt infestation.
In addition to the common insecticides generally used, various special preparations are known which may be found useful against different kinds of insects, such as roachicides, anticides, culicides, larvicides, etc.
Dusting the seed with an anticide, such as 20% lindane dust at 1 lb. of dust to 80 lb. of seed, will discourage them. Inoculated legume seed should not be mixed with dusted seed as the anticide will kill the bacteria.
Use anticide when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Anticide means A substance that kills ants..
Common synonyms include formicide.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Therefore a parathion-treated upland pineapple orchard guarded with anticide throughout the growing seasons showed only negligible pineapple wilt infestation.
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