Meaning | A chemical used to kill insects. |
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Synonym | insecticide |
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Narrower | Malathion | A yellow insecticide used as a dust or spray to control garden pests and house flies and mites |
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Paris green | A toxic double salt of copper arsenate and copper acetate |
dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, DDT | An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans |
larvacide | An insecticide that kills the larvae of insects |
lead arsenate | A poisonous white solid (Pb3[AsO4]2) used as an insecticide |
lindane | A white crystalline powder used as an agricultural insecticide |
organophosphate | An insecticide that interferes with an insect's nervous system |
parathion | A colorless and odorless toxic oil used as an insecticide |
pyrethrum | made of dried flower heads of pyrethrum plants |
rotenone | A white crystalline insecticide that has low toxicity for mammals |
Broader | pesticide | A chemical used to kill pests (as rodents or insects) |
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Substances | arsenic, As, atomic number 33 | A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms |
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Spanish | insecticida |
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Catalan | insecticida |
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