Crossword-Solution: VERMICIDE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Vermicide | n. | A medicine which destroys intestinal worms; a worm killer. |
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| any substance used to kill worms | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects,
spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally
unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of
growth.
Hint 2 anagram
HIRA
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with VERMICIDE (2)
Before she died she made the following remarkable statement: "I have been a poisoner, but not intentionally." It is believed that she secured the poison from a vermicide in which arsenic was mixed with soft soap.
The attempts made by Goldmann[760] to prepare from the bark of _Musenna abyssinica_, a plant of the order _Myrsinaceæ_, indigenous to Persia, the active substance, namely sebirol, have shown that when this is given alone it certainly acts as a vermicide, but not as a vermifuge; on the other hand, the results of a combination of sebirol with thymol and salicylates were surprisingly good; this mixture has been introduced into commerce as tæniol, in the shape of pastilles prepared with chocolate for children.