| insecticide | | |
| n. (substance) | 1. insect powder, insecticide | a chemical used to kill insects. |
| ~ pyrethrum | made of dried flower heads of pyrethrum plants. |
| ~ ddt, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane | an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans; banned in the United States since 1972. |
| ~ larvacide | an insecticide that kills the larvae of insects. |
| ~ lead arsenate | a poisonous white solid (Pb3[AsO4]2) used as an insecticide. |
| ~ as, atomic number 33, arsenic | a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar. |
| ~ lindane | a white crystalline powder used as an agricultural insecticide. |
| ~ malathion | a yellow insecticide used as a dust or spray to control garden pests and house flies and mites. |
| ~ organophosphate | an insecticide that interferes with an insect's nervous system. |
| ~ pesticide | a chemical used to kill pests (as rodents or insects). |
| ~ parathion | a colorless and odorless toxic oil used as an insecticide. |
| ~ paris green | a toxic double salt of copper arsenate and copper acetate. |
| ~ rotenone | a white crystalline insecticide that has low toxicity for mammals; is used in home gardens; extracted from the roots of derris and cube. |
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