Meaning of slugicide | Babel Free

Definitions

A substance that kills slugs.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“I have applied slugicides in every variety that the advertisements offer; but the slugs persist.”

“Certain slugicides are excellent preventives against slugs and do not hurt the seedlings;”

“They all talk, telling of the Dorothies that did so well last year, the delphiniums the slugs ate, and getting advice thrown in with more Dorothies and cans of slugicide—guaranteed free of arsenic—and packets of seed.”

“No experimental work has been conducted in New Zealand to determine the relative value of this compound as compared with other “slugicides,” but the writer has found it useful in checking an outbreak of slugs found to be infesting field cabbages.”

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