Autocide vs Autocade - What's the difference?
autocide | autocade |
(agriculture) Control of a pest through propagation of sterile males
* {{quote-book, 1975, Dennis S. Hill, Agricultural Insect Pests of the Tropics and Their Control, page=22, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=_Ls8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA22, isbn=0521202612, edition=2nd ed.
, passage=Generally, autocide is most effective when applied to restricted populations (islands, etc.), but can be effective on parts of continents. }}
(bacteriology) A substance produced by a bacterium that is fatal to that bacterium
* {{quote-book, 2001, , editors=David R. Boone et al., Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, page=1065, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=9cwgo-9IyTUC&pg=RA2-PA1065&, isbn=0387241450, chapter=Myxococcales
, passage=Five different autocides have been isolated from Myxococcus xanthus . }}
(obsolete, rare) A suicidal person.
An act of suicide committed by crashing a car
* {{quote-news, 1993, December 13, , Northbridge Educators Alerted to Depression Among Students , Worcester Telegram Gazette
, passage="Autocide is becoming the second most popular method for older teens to commit suicide," she said. }}
As nouns the difference between autocide and autocade
is that autocide is (agriculture) control of a pest through propagation of sterile males or autocide can be an act of suicide committed by crashing a car while autocade is motorcade.autocide
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