ADULTICIDE

Etymology

Noun

adulticide (plural adulticides)

A pesticide designed to kill adult insects rather than their larvae.

Verb

adulticide (third-person singular simple present adulticides, present participle adulticiding, simple past and past participle adulticided)

(transitive) To treat with adulticide.

Anagrams

• dilucidate

Source: Wiktionary



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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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