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Formicide vs Formicid - What's the difference?

formicide | formicid |

As nouns the difference between formicide and formicid

is that formicide is a substance that kills ants while formicid is (zoology) any member of the ant family formicidae.

formicide

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A substance that kills ants.
  • The killing of ants.
  • *2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, p. 599:
  • *:Each category of formicide is driven by an utterly distinct motive. But if you were an ant, you might not care about these fine distinctions.

    • formicid

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) Any member of the ant family Formicidae.
    • (Webster 1913)