Home › Words › F › filaricidefilaricidefilaricide means the destruction of filaria.EtymologyFrom translingual Filaria + -cide, type genus of the superfamily Filarioidea.nounThe destruction of filaria.A pesticide that kills nematodes of the superfamily Filarioidea.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.filaricidal 76% match — That functions as a filaricide vs filaricide →macrofilaricidal 72% match — That causes large-scale filaricide vs filaricide →microfilaricide 72% match — A pesticide that kills microfilariae vs filaricide →microfilaricidal 71% match — That functions as a microfilaricide. vs filaricide →macrofilaricide 70% match — Any pesticide that kills macrofilariae vs filaricide →filariad 69% match — Any nematode of the genus Filaria. vs filaricide →antifilarial 69% match — That counters filaria vs filaricide →filaria 68% match — Any of the parasitic nematode worms of superfamily Filarioidea that lives in the blood of vertebrates and is transmitted by insects: the cause of filariasis. vs filaricide →