Talk:antimicrobicide

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Why it's nonstandard

From the morphemes used, it could be read as either:

  1. anti- microbicide ("something that prevents a microbicide from killing microbes")
  2. antimicrobe + -cide ("something that kills an organism that works against microbes.

Neither fits in the citations. DCDuring (talk) 13:55, 18 February 2018 (UTC)Reply