ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. (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

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include slugicide, molluscicide, molluskicide, slimicide, molluscacide, scalicide.

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