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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An agent or preparation used to destroy parasites.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun That which destroys parasites; any agent or material means of killing parasites, as an insecticide, a vermifuge, etc.
  • Parasiticidal; destructive to parasites.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Anything used to destroy parasites.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun any substance used to kill parasites

Etymologies

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parasite +‎ -cide

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