Crossword clues for malathion
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n. A pesticide, Diethyl [(dimethoxyphosphinothioyl)-thio]butanedioate.
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Malathion is an organophosphate insecticide of relatively low human toxicity. In the former USSR, it was known as carbophos, in New Zealand and Australia as maldison and in South Africa as mercaptothion.
Usage examples of "malathion".
Early focus groups showed he was so right, residents would start putting malathion on their cereal.
Last October, a derivative of the insecticide malathion escaped from an American Cy-anamid tank in Linden, N.
He was hardly an epicurean, but he surely would have noticed the first time he slurped up a spoonful of Malathion or Sevin.
She remembered Cho spraying Malathion gleefully, using an old pump sprayer, no face mask, no protection.
You see, two of this last group - Parathion and Malathion - work by depressing the production of an enzyme named cholinesterase.
Autumn was a time of sorting out the daffodil bulbs with their malathion stink, brushing their onionskin coatings from overly thick sweaters knit by two grandmothers who refused to speak English while they carded wool.
Maybe I’m so irate because I live in California, where the pesticide pimps have repeatedly sprayed my house with Malathion (fighting the medfly, don’t you know).