snailicide

plural snailicides

1. countableuncountableA substance that kills snails.

   A snailicide is for killing snails and slugs. Metaldehyde is a snailicide.

   1957 March 24, “What Those Names On Spray Guns Mean”, in The Miami Herald, 47th year, number 112, page 10-B, column 3

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   Organic snailicides for Katayama nosophora. J. Pharm. Soc. Japan. 69, 396-8, 1949. Citado segundo Chem. Abstr. 44, 3196, 1950.

   1951, Anais da Faculdade de Farmácia e Odontologia da Universidade de São Paulo, page 50

   The object of the project was to determine the possibility of using Sodium Pentachlrophenate as a snailicide and to see to what extent its use was practical, economical and efficient for the control of snails in our water courses;

   1951, Annual Report of the Commissioner of Health, Puerto Rico. Dept. of Health, page 134

   If infestation occurs within the pots, it will take constant surveillance to eliminate this condition — picking off snails from plants and placing pellets near (but not on) new roots, so they will eat the poison. Liquid snailicides will also give satisfactory results.

   1957, American Orchid Society Bulletin, page 782

   OPERATIONS AND PRODUCTS. / Suspected: Production of urea from ammonium carbamate, production of carbamates and polyurethan plastics, fungicides, weed killers, insecticides, insecticide repellents, snailicides,[…]

   1958, Charles James Frankel, Lawyers’ Medical Cyclopedia of Personal Injuries and Allied Specialties, page 578

   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.

   1959 April 12, “What To Do This Week”, in The Lima Citizen, second year, number 285, Lima, Ohio, page D-8, column 2

2. countablerareuncountableThe killing of a snail.

   commit snailicide[…]SNAIL, SLUG & INSECT KILLER

   1979, Sunset, page 154

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   Boy One and his friends delighted in our method of snailicide: partly because we paid well (five cents per snail) but also because they got to stay up late to get the job done.

   2001 September 19, Katie Watts, “All bark, no bite”, in Petaluma Argus-Courier, volume 147, number 6, page 15, column 4

   Away she went and fetched a photograph - a wagon train of snails crossing the lawn towards a buried beer glass and disappearing over the edge to their doom. It’s one thing to set a trap but to photograph actual snailicide... I was quite shocked.

   2009, Oonah V Joslin, “Trap”, in People of Few Words: Fifty Writers from the Writers’ Showcase of the Short Humour Site, Lulu.com, →ISBN

   She had half a mind to ring the RSPCA. Except then she’d have to confess to snailicide.

   2020, Michele Gorman, The Staycation, Trapeze, →ISBN