Snailicide
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Snailicide is a noun meaning A substance that kills snails.
Meaning
A substance that kills snails.
More Meanings
- (rare) The killing of a snail.
Example Sentences
Slugs—metaldehyde in prepared baits or in snailicide
A snailicide is for killing snails and slugs. Metaldehyde is a snailicide.
Organic snailicides for Katayama nosophora. J. Pharm. Soc. Japan. 69, 396-8, 1949. Citado segundo Chem. Abstr. 44, 3196, 1950.
Scatter slug bait or dust with snailicide in shady places and around seed beds and cold frames before the slugs chew up seedlings as well as leaves of many plants.
Word Forms
- snailicides
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include slugicide, molluscicide, molluskicide, slimicide, molluscacide, scalicide.
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