Meaning of snailicide | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A substance that kills snails.
   countable, uncountable
2. The killing of a snail.
   countable, rare, uncountable

Examples

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

“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;”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Slugs—metaldehyde in prepared baits or in snailicide”

“Methoxychlor and DDT are comparatively poor snailicide materials.[…]Now metaldehyde is accepted as the best snailicide and is giving good results in many countries.”

“If, however, a heavy rain occurs just after seeding, snails destroy the seedlings unless the snails are eliminated by the application of a chemical snailicide.”

“There are good commercial snailicides for the mollusks (snails and slugs), generally in the form of pellets, but one should also avoid the conditions in which they breed, such as rotting piles of leaves and trash and weeds.”

“They were taking toll of the plants and looking most unsightly against the glass, so some measure (apart from squashing them) had to be devised. Not surprisingly, I did not reach out for a snailicide mixture.”

“[…]a mental note was made concerning the desirable qualities of insecticides and snailicides.”

“The last choice is to use poison. It’s a dangerous choice, however. Snailicides use copper sulfate as an active ingredient, which may harm plants or fish if improperly dosed.”

“Copper sulfate is an approved snailicide by the federal Environmental Protection Agency.”

“commit snailicide[…]SNAIL, SLUG & INSECT KILLER”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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