Associations to the word «Pesticide»

Wiktionary

PESTICIDE, noun. Anything, especially a synthetic substance but also any substance (e.g. sulfur), or virus, bacterium, or other organism, which kills or suppresses the activities of pests.

Dictionary definition

PESTICIDE, noun. A chemical used to kill pests (as rodents or insects).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats