Verminicide

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A substance that kills vermin countable, uncountable

    "But at Sam Suffy there were worse than mosquitoes. During the summer verminicide became a necessary item in the “bazar.”"

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"But at Sam Suffy there were worse than mosquitoes. During the summer verminicide became a necessary item in the “bazar.”"

Etymology

From vermin + -icide.

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