herbicide

English

Etymology

From herb +‎ -icide.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɜːbɪsaɪd/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)ɝbɪsaɪd/
Audio (US): (file)
Homophone: urbicide (for pronunciations without /h/)

Noun

herbicide (countable and uncountable, plural herbicides)

A substance used to kill plants.

Synonyms

phytocide

Hyponyms

weedkiller

Derived terms

Related terms

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)): (file)
Audio (France (Lyon)): (file)
Homophone: herbicides
Hyphenation: her‧bi‧cide

Noun

herbicide m (plural herbicides)

herbicide

Further reading

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