herbicide

English

Etymology

From herb +‎ -icide.

Pronunciation

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Noun

herbicide (countable and uncountable, plural herbicides)

1. A substance used to kill plants.

Synonyms

• phytocide

Hyponyms

• weedkiller

Derived terms

• antiherbicide
• bioherbicide
• mycoherbicide
• nonherbicide
• proherbicide
• rainbow herbicide

Related terms

• herb
• herbicidal

Translations

substance used to kill plants

Afrikaans: onkruiddoder Armenian: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: гербіцыд m (hjerbicyd) Catalan: herbicida m Chinese: Mandarin: 除草劑 / 除草剂 (zh) (chúcǎojì) Czech: herbicid (cs) m Dutch: herbicide (nl) n, onkruidverdelger (nl) m Esperanto: herbicido Faroese: ókrútstýnari m Finnish: kasvimyrkky French: herbicide (fr) m German: Herbizid (de) n, chemisches Wildkrautbekämpfungsmittel n, chemisches Unkrautvernichtungsmittel n, chemischer Unkrautvernichter m, chemische Keule f (colloquial) Greek: ζιζανιοκτόνο (el) n (zizanioktóno) Indonesian: herbisida (id) Italian: diserbante (it) m, erbicida (it) m Japanese: 除草剤 (ja) (じょそうざい, josōzai) Korean: 제초제(除草劑) (ko) (jechoje) Malay: herbisid (ms), racun herba Polish: herbicyd (pl) m Portuguese: herbicida (pt) m Romanian: erbicid (ro) n Russian: гербици́д (ru) m (gerbicíd) Scots: yerbicide Serbo-Croatian: herbìcīd (sh) m Spanish: herbicida (es) m Swedish: herbicid (sv) c, ogräsmedel n Tagalog: lasonlamon Thai: ยาฆ่าหญ้า (yaa-kâa-yâa) Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

French

Etymology

From herbe +‎ -cide.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɛʁ.bi.sid/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Homophone: herbicides
• Hyphenation: her‧bi‧cide

Noun

herbicide m (plural herbicides)

1. herbicide

Further reading

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