Slugicide

Quick meaning: Slugicide is a noun meaning A substance that kills slugs.

Meaning

A substance that kills slugs.

Example Sentences

Certain slugicides are excellent preventives against slugs and do not hurt the seedlings;

I have applied slugicides in every variety that the advertisements offer; but the slugs persist.

They all talk, telling of the Dorothies that did so well last year, the delphiniums the slugs ate, and getting advice thrown in with more Dorothies and cans of slugicide—guaranteed free of arsenic—and packets of seed.

No experimental work has been conducted in New Zealand to determine the relative value of this compound as compared with other “slugicides,” but the writer has found it useful in checking an outbreak of slugs found to be infesting field cabbages.

Word Forms

• slugicides

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include snailicide, slimicide, molluscicide, lousicide, scalicide, mosquiticide.

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