3. Animal. "Animal" means all vertebrate and invertebrate species, including but not limited to man humans and other mammals, birds, fish and shellfish.

4. Beneficial insects. "Beneficial insects" means those insects which that, during their life cycle, are effective pollinators of plants, are parasites or predators of pests or are otherwise beneficial.

5. Commissioner. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources or his authorized agents.

6. Defoliant. "Defoliant" means any substance or mixture of substances intended for causing the leaves or foliage to drop from a plant, with or without causing abscission.

7. Desiccant. "Desiccant" means any substance or mixture of substances intended for artificially accelerating the drying of plant tissue.

8. Device. "Device" means any instrument or contrivance, other than a firearm, which that is intended for trapping, destroying, repelling or mitigating any pest or any other form of plant or animal life, other than man a human being and other bacteria than a bacterium, virus or other microorganism on or in a living man human being or other living animals, but not including animal.__"Device" does not include equipment used for the application of pesticides when sold separately therefrom from pesticides.

9. Distribute. "Distribute" means to offer for sale, hold for sale, sell, barter, ship, deliver for shipment or receive and, having so received, deliver or offer to deliver, pesticides in this State.

10. Environment. "Environment" includes water, air, and land and all plants and man human beings and other animals living therein, and the interrelationships which that exist among these.

11. EPA. "EPA" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

12. FIFRA. "FIFRA" means the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act.

13. Fungi. "Fungi" means all nonchlorophyll-bearing thallophytes, that is, all nonchlorophyll-bearing plants of a