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What is a pediculicide?

What is a pediculicide? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An insecticide that kills lice.
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All enrolled participants provided baseline data on age, gender, hair characteristics, and previous pediculicide use.
This was the same kill rate seen among the 20 patients who had applied RID shampoo, a pyrethrin-piper-onyl-butoxide pediculicide.
This resulted in persistence of infestation in the children treated with this pediculicide, particularly when the intensity of infestation was high.
We conclude that the dimeticone-based product is a safe pediculicide.
The Random House College Dictionary defines DDT as an insecticide, a scabicide, and a pediculicide and says that it's also called by a 31-letter word.
The dimeticone product, being highly efficacious and non-toxic, can be considered an ideal pediculicide.

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