Look up: pesticide

1. pesticide
   Used to destroy pests. Fungicides (destroys fungus), herbicides (destroys plants), insecticides (destroys insects), and nematicides (destroys nematodes) are all pesticides.
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2. Pesticide
   Substances or mixture there of intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest. Also, any substance or mixture intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant.
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3. Pesticide
   A substance that kills harmful organisms (for example, an insecticide or fungicide).
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4. Pesticide
   Any substance (chemical or microbial) which by virtue of its toxicity is used to control harmful organisms. ('Pesticide' includes acaricide, bactericide, fungicide, herbicide, insecticide, nematicide, rodenticide etc.).
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5. pesticide
   [n] - a chemical used to kill pests (as rodents or insects)
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6. Pesticide
   Generic term for any Plant Protection Product which may be subdivided into herbicides, fungicides and insecticides.
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7. Pesticide
   A chemical or biological agent that kills pests. A pest can be an animal, fungi, insect, plant or any unwanted species.
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8. Pesticide
   a chemical or biological substance that is used to kill or control pests
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9. Pesticide
   Agent which destroys, repels and prevents pests
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10. Pesticide
    Chemical that is used to kill insects and other pests that attack growing crops. Some pesticides have been thought to increase the risk of developing some cancers.
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11. Pesticide
    Pesticide: A chemical used to control, repel, or destroy pests of any sort. There are scores of different types of pesticides which may act specifically, for example, as acaricides (against mites), fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, molluscacides (against snails and other mollusks), pediculicides...
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12. pesticide
    waste consisting of or containing pesticide residues; can be industrial waste or consumer waste Category: Environment • residues of the pesticides and of their metabolites, and breakdown or reaction products, included in the list referred to in Article 1,which are present in or on the pr...
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13. pesticide
    <pharmacology> A chemical which is used to kill unwanted organisms such as rats, insects, nematodes, etc. ... Pesticides often act as nerve poisons, and they are hazardous to animals and humans (some pesticides can cause nerve or liver damage, birth defects and cancer). ... See: biological magnification and herbicide. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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14. pesticide
    noun a chemical used to kill pests (as rodents or insects)
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15. pesticide
    (pes´tĭ-sīd) a poison used to destroy pests of any sort.
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16. pesticide
    any toxic substance used to kill animals or plants that cause economic damage to crop or ornamental plants or are hazardous to the health of domestic ... [11 related articles]
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17. pesticide
    pesticide, pesticidal A substance for destroying pests; especially, insects.
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18. pesticide
    pesticide, biological, physical, or chemical agent used to kill plants or animals that are harmful to people; in practice, the term pesticide is often applied only to chemical agents. Various pesticides are known as insecticides, nematicides, fungicides, herbicides, and rodenticides, i.e., agents pr...
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19. pesticide
    Type: Term Pronunciation: pes′ti-sīd Definitions: 1. General term for an agent that destroys fungi, insects, rodents, or any other pest.
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20. pesticide
    Click images to enlargeAny chemical used in farming, gardening, or in the home, to combat pests. Pesticides are of three main types: insecticides (to kill insects), fungicides (to kill fungal diseases), and herbicides (to kill plants, mainly those considered weeds). Pesticides cause a number of pollution problems thro...
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21. Pesticide
    A substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest. Pesticides can accumulate in the food chain and/or contaminate the environment if they are misused.
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22. Pesticide
    A chemical or biological agent that kills pests. A pest can be an animal, fungi, insect, plant or any unwanted species.
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23. Pesticide
    Agent which destroys, repels and prevents pests
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24. pesticide
    Any substance that is used to kill insects and other pests.
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25. Pesticide
    spraying pesticide on a field `Pesticides` are substances or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any pest. A pesticide may be a chemical substance, biological agent (such as a virus or bacterium), antimicrobial, disinfectant or device used against any p...
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