See Also: acaricide(medicine)
Acaricide(health)
acaricide(dictionary)

apparat (iou) and Acaricide (health)


apparat (iou)



apparat noun. M20.
[Russian from German formed as APPARATUS.]
The Communist Party machine in the former USSR and Other countries.

Acaricide (health)


An agent, usually a chemical, that kills mites. This class of pesticides is large and includes antibiotic acaricides, carbamate acaricides, formamidine acaricides, mite growth regulators, organophosphate acaricides, and many others. From the Latin acarus, a mite + -cide, to kill.