germicide : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: germicide	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for germicide
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
germicide n an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease Synonym(s): disinfectant, germicide, antimicrobic, antimicrobial
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Germicide \Ger"micide\ (j[etil]r"m[icr]s[imac]d), a. [Germ + L. caedere to kill.] (Biol.) Destructive to germs; -- applied to any agent which has a destructive action upon living germs, particularly bacteria, or bacterial germs, which are considered the cause of many infectious diseases. -- n. A germicide agent.