verminicide

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noun

A substance that kills vermin

Scrabble 19
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Meanings

nounverminicide (countable and uncountable, plural verminicides)

plural verminicides

  1. countableuncountableA substance that kills vermin

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

    1925 September, Edmund Candler, “The Dinosaur’s Egg”, in Blackwood’s Magazine, volume CCXVIII, number MCCCXIX, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood & Sons, […], section XII (The Simple Life at Nurien), page 313, column 2

Origin

From vermin + -icide.

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “verminicide,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/verminicide.

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