Crossword clues for insecticide
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Insecticide \In*sec"ti*cide\, n. [Insect + L. caedere to kill.] An agent or preparation for destroying insects; an insect powder or spray. -- In*sec"ti*ci`dal, a.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"substance which kills insects," 1865, from insect + -cide.
Wiktionary
n. A substance used to kill insects.
WordNet
n. a chemical used to kill insects [syn: insect powder]
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 factor behind the increase in agricultural 20th century's productivity. Nearly all insecticides have the potential to significantly alter ecosystems; many are toxic to humans; some concentrate along the food chain.
Insecticides can be classified in two major groups: systemic insecticides, which have residual or long term activity; and contact insecticides, which have no residual activity.
Furthermore, one can distinguish three types of insecticide. 1. Natural insecticides, such as nicotine, pyrethrum and neem extracts, made by plants as defenses against insects. 2. Inorganic insecticides, which are metals. 3. Organic insecticides, which are organic chemical compounds, mostly working by contact.
The mode of action describes how the pesticide kills or inactivates a pest. It provides another way of classifying insecticides. Mode of action is important in understanding whether an insecticide will be toxic to unrelated species, such as fish, birds and mammals.
Insecticides are distinct from insect repellents, which do not kill.
Insecticide is a story-driven action-adventure game by Crackpot Entertainment and published by Gamecock Media Group for the Nintendo DS and Microsoft Windows.
Insecticide is a chemical used to control insects
'''Insecticide ''' may refer to:
- Insecticide (video game), a 2008 story-driven action-adventure game by Crackpot Entertainment and published by Gamecock Media Group for the Nintendo DS and Windows.
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.