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herbicide

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɜːbɪsaɪd/
  • General-American: /ˈ(h)ɝbɪsaɪd/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • homophone: urbicide (for pronunciations without /h/)
  • CMU ARPABET: HH ER1 B IH0 S AY2 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: ER1 B IH0 S AY2 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A substance used to kill plants.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a chemical agent that destroys plants or inhibits their growth

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: weedkiller, weed killer

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: chemical, chemical substance

Narrower terms: Agent Orange, atrazine, linuron, paraquat, silvex, simazine

History

Etymology

From herb + -icide.

Across languages

Translations

35 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: onkruiddoder — substance used to kill plants
  • Belarusian: гербіцыд (hjerbicyd) — substance used to kill plants
  • Catalan: herbicida — substance used to kill plants
  • Chinese Mandarin: 除草劑 /除草剂 (chúcǎojì) — substance used to kill plants
  • Czech: herbicid — substance used to kill plants
  • Dutch: herbicide — substance used to kill plants
  • Dutch: onkruidverdelger — substance used to kill plants
  • Esperanto: herbicido — substance used to kill plants
  • Faroese: ókrútstýnari — substance used to kill plants
  • Finnish: kasvimyrkky — substance used to kill plants
  • French: herbicide — substance used to kill plants
  • German: Herbizid — substance used to kill plants
  • German: chemisches Wildkrautbekämpfungsmittel — substance used to kill plants
  • German: chemisches Unkrautvernichtungsmittel — substance used to kill plants
  • German: chemischer Unkrautvernichter — substance used to kill plants
  • German: chemische Keule — substance used to kill plants
  • Greek: ζιζανιοκτόνο (zizanioktóno) — substance used to kill plants
  • Indonesian: herbisida — substance used to kill plants
  • Italian: diserbante — substance used to kill plants
  • Italian: erbicida — substance used to kill plants
  • Japanese: 除草剤 (josōzai) — substance used to kill plants
  • Korean: 제초제 (jechoje) — substance used to kill plants
  • Malay: herbisid — substance used to kill plants
  • Malay: racun herba — substance used to kill plants
  • Polish: herbicyd — substance used to kill plants
  • Portuguese: herbicida — substance used to kill plants
  • Romanian: erbicid — substance used to kill plants
  • Russian: гербици́д (gerbicíd) — substance used to kill plants
  • Scots: yerbicide — substance used to kill plants
  • Serbo-Croatian: herbìcīd — substance used to kill plants
  • Spanish: herbicida — substance used to kill plants
  • Swedish: herbicid — substance used to kill plants
  • Swedish: ogräsmedel — substance used to kill plants
  • Tagalog: lasonlamon — substance used to kill plants
  • Thai: ยาฆ่าหญ้า (yaa-kâa-yâa) — substance used to kill plants