Usually means: Kills or inhibits growth of germs.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. germicidal: Merriam-Webster
  2. germicidal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. germicidal: Collins English Dictionary
  4. germicidal: Vocabulary.com
  5. Germicidal, germicidal: Wordnik
  6. germicidal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. germicidal: Wiktionary
  8. germicidal: Dictionary.com
  9. Germicidal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Germicidal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. germicidal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. germicidal: Rhymezone
  13. Germicidal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. germicidal: FreeDictionary.org
  15. germicidal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. germicidal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. germicidal: Legal dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. germicidal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. germicidal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. germicidal: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (germicidal)

▸ adjective:  that kills pathogenic organisms; disinfectant

Similar:
bactericidal, disinfectant, antiseptic, disinfective, microbactericidal, verminicidal, bacteriocidic, bacteriocidal, photobactericidal, bacteriacidal, more...

Opposite:
germ-free, sterile, clean

Types:
ultraviolet, chlorine, ozone, quaternary ammonium, peroxygen, silver, iodine, hydrogen peroxide, more...

Phrases:
Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation, Germicidal lamp, more...

Adjectives:
more, less, greater, longer, effective, highly, weakly, important

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Similar:
bactericidal, disinfectant, antiseptic, disinfective, microbactericidal, verminicidal, bacteriocidic, bacteriocidal, photobactericidal, bacteriacidal, more...

Opposite:
germ-free, sterile, clean

Types:
ultraviolet, chlorine, ozone, quaternary ammonium, peroxygen, silver, iodine, hydrogen peroxide, more...

Phrases:
Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation, Germicidal lamp, more...

Adjectives:
more, less, greater, longer, effective, highly, weakly, important



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