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From French insecticide, as insect +‎ -icide.

insecticide (countable and uncountable, plural insecticides)

1. A substance used to kill insects.
   • 2009, Handbook of Pesticides: Methods of Pesticide Residues Analysis, →ISBN:
     The dried seed powder of custard apple (Annona squamosa L; family: Annonaceae) has been used as an insecticide in India and many other tropical countries since ancient times.

• insect
• insecticidal

A substance used to kill insects

• Armenian: միջատասպան (hy) (miǰataspan)

• Catalan: insecticida m

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 殺蟲劑 / 杀虫剂 (zh) (shāchóngjì)

• Czech: insekticid (cs) m

• Dutch: insecticide (nl) n

• Faroese: skordýratýnari m

• Finnish: hyönteismyrkky (fi)

• French: insecticide (fr) m

• Galician: insecticida m

• German: Insektengift (de) n, Insektizid (de) n

• Greek: εντομοκτόνο (el) n (entomoktóno)

• Hungarian: rovarirtó (hu)

• Indonesian: insektisida (id)

• Irish: feithidicíd f, feithidnimh f

• Italian: insetticida (it) f

• Japanese: 殺虫剤 (ja) (さっちゅうざい, satchūzai)

• Kazakh: жәндікжойғы (jändıkjoiğy)

• Korean: 살충제 (ko) (salchungje)

• Latin: insecticida f

• Malay: insektisid

• Mongolian:
  Cyrillic: шавжны хор (šavžny xor)
  Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠪᠠᠵᠢᠨ ᠦ ᠬᠣᠣᠷ᠎ᠠ (sibaǰin-ü qoor-a)

• Navajo: chʼosh bee yigání

• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: insektmiddel n
  Nynorsk: insektmiddel n

• Persian: حشره‌کش (hašare-keš)

• Polish: środek owadobójczy m

• Portuguese: inseticida (pt) m

• Romanian: insecticid (ro) n

• Russian: инсектици́д (ru) m (insekticíd)

• Spanish: insecticida (es) f

• Swahili: dawa ya wadudu class n/n

• Swedish: insektsgift n

• Tagalog: pamatay-kulisap

• Thai: ยาฆ่าแมลง (yaa-kâa-má-lɛɛng)

• Tibetan: འབུ་སྨན ('bu sman)

• Turkish: insektisit (tr)

• scienticide

Borrowed, probably from English insecticide.

insecticide n (plural insecticides or insecticiden)

1. pesticide

• insecticide on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl

From insecte +‎ -cide.

• IPA(key): /ɛ̃.sɛk.ti.sid/

insecticide m (plural insecticides)

1. insecticide

• “insecticide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.