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- noun Plural form of
avicide .
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Examples
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Conventional farmers now use herbicides to kill weeds, fungicides to kill fungi, rodenticides to kill field mice and gophers, avicides to kill fruit-eating birds and molluscicides to kill snails.
Certified Organic 2007
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They do, however, still use trap roosts to concentrate the birds so that workers with backpack sprayers can get to them with avicides (bird-killing chemicals).
Chapter 23 1996
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Frequently pigeons who ingest avicides will die in a yard somewhere and sicken or kill a dog or cat who may eat it.
SFGate: Top News Stories Richard Fagerlund 2010
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Never use avicides to control pigeons as there are always unintended consequences.
SFGate: Top News Stories Richard Fagerlund 2010
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