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Insecticide   /ɪnsˈɛktəsˌaɪd/   Listen
Insecticide

noun
1.
A chemical used to kill insects.  Synonym: insect powder.





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"Insecticide" Quotes from Famous Books



... fleas, and they've got to put up with them! There is no "poudre insecticide" for literary vermin—and more's the pity! (Good heavens! what would the generous and delicate-minded Barty say, if he were alive, at my delivering myself in this unworthy fashion about these long-forgotten assailants of his, and at my age too—he who never penned a line in retaliation! ...
— The Martian • George Du Maurier
... colorless, odorless insecticide that has toxic effects on most animals; the use of DDT was banned in ...
— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


Words linked to "Insecticide" :   Malathion, arsenic, pesticide, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, larvacide, parathion, lead arsenate, organophosphate, atomic number 33, as, rotenone, DDT, Paris green, pyrethrum, lindane


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