Antonyms for pesticide
ˈpɛs təˌsaɪdpes·ti·cide

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Princeton's WordNet

1. pesticidenoun

   a chemical used to kill pests (as rodents or insects)

How to use pesticide in a sentence?

1. Cheng Yue:

   Take a bowl of rice. I want to know exactly how it was planted, and how much fertilizer or pesticide was applied to it.

2. Scott Faber:

   We've banned pesticides before, and farmers have turned to safer alternatives. The notion that we should continue to use a pesticide linked to autism because it's needed to feed the world is an outrageous, ridiculous statement.

3. Jorge Chavarro:

   While previous work had linked occupational exposure to pesticides to impaired sperm production I was skeptical that pesticide residues in food could have a similar effect, i think this study opened a lot more questions than I had anticipated.

4. Chris Connolly:

   Small changes in the pesticide structure or its target site in insects are likely to be critical to risk assessment, each pesticide/insect combination needs to be considered independently.

5. Corrie Moreau:

   The current' insect apocalypse' is really a death by a thousand cuts, pesticide use, land use modification and climate change are likely the major factors causing these global insect declines and all of these are due to human activities. I think it is in our best interest to try to mitigate as many of these as we can since every species on the planet is important.

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