insect powder
English Thesaurus
1. a chemical used to kill insects (noun.substance)
| hypernym | : | pesticide, |
| definition | : | a chemical used to kill pests (as rodents or insects) (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | pyrethrum, |
| definition | : | made of dried flower heads of pyrethrum plants (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | larvacide, |
| definition | : | an insecticide that kills the larvae of insects (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | lead arsenate, |
| definition | : | a poisonous white solid (Pb3[AsO4]2) used as an insecticide (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | lindane, |
| definition | : | a white crystalline powder used as an agricultural insecticide (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | malathion, |
| definition | : | a yellow insecticide used as a dust or spray to control garden pests and house flies and mites (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | organophosphate, |
| definition | : | an insecticide that interferes with an insect's nervous system (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | parathion, |
| definition | : | a colorless and odorless toxic oil used as an insecticide (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | paris green, |
| definition | : | a toxic double salt of copper arsenate and copper acetate (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | rotenone, |
| definition | : | a white crystalline insecticide that has low toxicity for mammals; is used in home gardens; extracted from the roots of derris and cube (noun.substance) |
| substance holonym | : | arsenic, as, atomic number 33, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.substance) |
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