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Spell Bee Word: Pesticide


What does pesticide mean?

Word: Pesticide

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Pesticide means a chemical used to kill insects and other pests that harm crops or plants.

Synonyms: insecticide, insect spray

How do you spell pesticide?

Syllables: pes - ti - cide

Tricky part: The end is cide, with a c, even though it sounds like side. Pestiside is the slip most children make.

Watch out for: pestiside, pesticid, pestisyde

Memory tip: Pesticide starts with pest, the very thing it is made to kill, and ends in cide, the killing part also found in insecticide.

Pesticide in a sentence

Example 1: The farmer sprayed pesticide on his cotton field.

Example 2: The shop near the market sells seeds, tools and pesticide.

Example 3: Some gardeners grow marigolds to keep pests away without pesticide.

Fun Fact

Many farmers use neem oil as a natural pesticide, because insects avoid the bitter neem.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) irigation
b) fertilisor
c) pesticide
d) harvist

Show answer

c) pesticide. The farm words fertiliser, irrigation and harvest are misspelt; pesticide is not.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Grandpa keeps the pestecide on a high shelf, away from the children.

a) pestecide
b) away
c) children
d) shelf

Show answer

a) pestecide. After pest comes an i, not an e, before the cide.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

tisdeceip

a) persisted
b) pesticide
c) decipher
d) precise

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b) pesticide. Two i's and two e's with p, s, t, c and d spell pesticide.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A farmer would use a pesticide to deal with ____.

a) a cold, frosty night
b) insects eating the leaves
c) too little rain in summer
d) poor, sandy soil

Show answer

b) insects eating the leaves

2. Which helpful insect can be harmed by too much pesticide?

a) the termite
b) the locust
c) the honeybee
d) the mosquito

Show answer

c) the honeybee

Associated Words

Words that end in -ide: bride, pride, countryside, reside, divide, slide

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: insecticide

More words from this list

resource, summit, weighty, bad, crater, efficient, grotto, limb

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