Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable)Any substance that is poisonous to fish.

  2. (uncountable)The killing of fish.

    The explosion of an aquarium in Berlin in 2022 caused a major piscicide.

  3. (countable, uncountable)A fish that kills.

  4. (countable, uncountable)A fish that kills another fish, especially out of malice.

Forms

plural: piscicides
Singularpiscicide
Pluralpiscicides

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Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

1 related words
Derivedpiscicidal

See also

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