Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A substance or agent used to kill worms, especially parasitic worms.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A worm-killer; that which destroys worms: applied to those anthelmintic drugs which act by killing, and not simply expelling, parasitic worms, such as entozoans.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A medicine which destroys intestinal worms; a worm killer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any substance used to kill
worms , especiallyparasitic intestinal worms
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an agent that kills worms (especially those in the intestines)
Etymologies
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vermi- + -cide
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Examples
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Tea trees are native to Australia and produce fragrant oil with antifungal and vermicide properties.
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It is believed that she secured the poison from a vermicide in which arsenic was mixed with soft soap.
She Stands Accused 1935
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