English

pupacide

From pupa + -cide.

Formed from pupa + -cide

Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- ‘few, little’

Latin pūpa ‘little girl’

English pupa

Today it means

noun Any pesticide that attacks the pupal stage of an insect

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