Describing something that kills mosquitoes or is effective against mosquitoes.
From Latin 'culex' (mosquito) plus '-cidal' (from 'caedere,' meaning to kill), describing substances or methods that destroy mosquitoes.
DDT was a famously powerful culicidal pesticide that saved millions from malaria in the mid-1900s—but its environmental costs became a turning point in conservation history!
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