Meaning

1 senses
  1. A substance that kills mites of the genus Sarcoptes, which cause scabies.

More definitions
  • a drug that destroys the itch mite that causes scabies

Origin

From scabies + -cide.

From scabies + -cide.

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Forms

plural: scabicides
Singularscabicide
Pluralscabicides

regular

Word family

1 related words
Derivedscabicidal

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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