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by dugword 1284 days ago
Herbicide is a subclass of pesticide.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesticide

> Pesticides are substances that are meant to control pests.[1] This includes herbicide, insecticide, nematicide, molluscicide, piscicide, avicide, rodenticide, bactericide, insect repellent, animal repellent, microbicide, fungicide, and lampricide.

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I stand corrected.

Still, "herbicide" is a more specific and accurate description of Roundup.

You are still intentionally ignoring any and all spillover effects of an herbicide into other types of -cides.