A substance that kills or destroys anthracnose fungus or similar coal-like fungal infections.
From anthracnosis + -cide (Latin caedere, 'to kill'). This agricultural chemistry term emerged as farmers sought chemical treatments for fungal diseases.
Anthracocides represent the agricultural arms race—as fungi mutate and resist old treatments, chemists keep inventing new weapons, and naming them is a way to track which fungi they kill.
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