pestfreeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

pestfree (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of pest-free.
   • 1930 February 2, “Carrot Pests”, in The Daily Colonist, volume 72, number 46, Victoria, B.C., Third Section, page 7:

     We need hardly say that there is no need whatever to give way to any such policy of despair, and you can turn out pestfree carrots every year if you follow the scheme given here.

   • 1990, Robert Chibka, A Slight Lapse, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 172:

     Eliminating disease and making crops flourish and above all the promise of a pestfree exurban eternity with built-in modern conveniences led Victor onward toward that clean well-lit place or time or not-time suggested but never quite blueprinted in the stories.

発音

American English: /ˈpɛstˌfri/

British English: /ˈpɛstˌfriː/ 韻: -fri