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A chemical used to kill insects
Answer for the clue "A chemical used to kill insects ", 11 letters:
insecticide
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Word definitions for insecticide in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"substance which kills insects," 1865, from insect + -cide .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A substance used to kill insects.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An insecticide is a substance used to kill insects . They include ovicides and larvicides used against insect eggs and larvae , respectively. Insecticides are used in agriculture , medicine , industry and by consumers. Insecticides are claimed to be a major ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB use ▪ Do not use any insecticide sprays in the house, or pesticide sprays in the garden. ▪ I built up my soil, added trace elements, made compost, never used herbicides or chemical insecticides . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ...
Usage examples of insecticide.
Emerald green is copper acetoarsenite, also called Paris green and used as an insecticide.
Many flea insecticides contain organophosphates and carbamates, which attack the nervous system.
Ask around for exterminators who use this Peter Pan treatment instead of more toxic insecticides.
Their entire lives are spent hunting and devouring bugs, and they have been called the dominant predators on earth because they kill more insects than birds do and destroy them more efficiently than insecticides.
Every few years, agricultural authorities spray literally tonnes of insecticide on the developing swarms.
South American plant, this botanical insecticide was discovered in the early 1940s and has proved good for control of codling moths in apple, pear and quince trees.
It chronicled her cock-tailed devolution from Delaware insecticide heiress elegantly tamping shreds of hard-boiled egg onto crustless toast triangles, loving the attention, then shamelessly hamming it up, becoming a haggard mal vivant gurgling fragments of sea shanties into the pipes beneath the kitchen sink.
Despite the insecticide, horseflies, deerflies and mosquitoes followed.
Pill bottles, rat poison, roach powder, cleaning and disinfecting agents, garden insecticides, that kind of thing.
He claimed in his interview that he was an agricultural engineer and that the formulas related to the production of a new insecticide.
They will sell us the insecticide, the bleaching powder and the water filtration units for the cost of production plus ten percent.
Their parents had all been killed by insecticides sprayed from the air, and a bush pilot had brought them to Guayaquil, where they had become children of the streets.
It had taken long and hard thought to decide what to use to replace the flea and lice-killing insecticide made from the equisetic acid she would have extracted with an infusion from the fern.
Shining brightly in through the large high windows of the warehouse, the morning sun lit up countless squadrons of the intermingled wasps, flies, vrills, grates, snurks, hornets, gnats, shothole beetles and other pests, that drifted and darted through rolling clouds of this latest insecticide.
Our insecticide of choice is hexachlorobenzene, which is easier for us to produce than the DDT that Grantville is making.