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What is a pesticide?

What is a pesticide? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Anything, especially a synthetic substance but also any substance (e.g. sulfur), or virus, bacterium, or other organism, which kills or suppresses the activities of pests.
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This echoes the wave of such birth deformities following the US's use of the pesticide Agent Orange as a chemical weapon in the Vietnam War.
Low retail prices promote pesticide use but weak legislation and inadequate law enforcement fail to control risks.
As a result, it is almost impossible to know the amount of pesticide residues on supermarket produce.
The cause was found to be the high amount of pesticide residue on vegetables.
Climatex Lifecycle, made by Swiss company Rohner Textil, is fabric made of pesticide free wool and organically grown ramie.
Storage in adipose tissue may be protective because pesticide levels in the brain are minimized.

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