0 used to form words referring to substances that kill a particular thing:
To prevent the algae from returning, consider installing zinc roof strips. The oxides that wash off the strips act as an algicide.
A high school student had to go to hospital after being doused by a cloud of herbicide that city employees were spraying on nearby grass.
They hope to develop a microbicide that kills or blocks HIV.
This new termiticide relies on low concentrations of naphthalenic compounds to kill the termites.
It is a story of civil war and fratricide.
Like Oedipus, he is a patricide: a father-killer.
