(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:10:34

Mi*crob"i*cide (?), n. [Microbe + L. caedere to kill.] Biol.

Any agent detrimental to, or destructive of, the life of microbes or bacterial organisms.

 

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