larvicide

1. 1.

   a chemical used to kill larval pests

   Broaderchemical

Other forms of larvicide

plural

larvicides·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about larvicide

What does larvicide mean?

larvicide means "a chemical used to kill larval pests".

How many syllables are in larvicide?

larvicide has 3 syllables and divides as lar-vi-cide under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.