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Insecticide

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A chemical substance used to kill insects.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A substance used to kill insects

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. An agent or preparation for destroying insects; an insect powder or spray.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One who or that which kills insects.

n. The act of killing insects.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a chemical used to kill insects

Word Usage

"As any environmentalist can tell you, insecticide is not very nice stuff — especially if you breathe it, which many Third World farmers do as they walk through their fields with backpack sprayers."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

pesticide

Cross Reference

bollene insecticide

Hyponym

Malathion Paris green lindane DDT lead arsenate

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

pesticide fungicide fertilizer antibiotic pollutant