What is another word for insecticide?
Synonyms for insecticide
ɪnˈsɛk təˌsaɪdin·sec·ti·cide
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Princeton's WordNet
insecticide, insect powdernoun
a chemical used to kill insects
Synonyms:
insect powder
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List of paraphrases for "insecticide":
insecticides, insecticidal, insecticide-treated, pesticide, pesticides
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#11982 | pesticides | |
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How to use insecticide in a sentence?
There is no current insecticide that doesn't show insect-resistance at the moment.
We can't keep replacing insecticides every (few) years forever, in the long run we need an exit from this arms race. Either that, or we need to tone down the (insecticide) coverage.
To apply any insecticide in a public waterway you have to be licensed. A certified pest management person.
Basically the anopheles likes to rest on a wall surface between feedings and thus is poisoned by the DDT that is on the walls, also there are insecticide impregnated bed nets -- usually with pyrethroids, and, infrequently, with DDT -- to guard against malaria transmission while sleeping. Bed nets also are very effective.
Whether it be typhus and Irish immigrants and the bubonic plague and Chinese immigrants, cholera and Russian Jews, when Mexican immigrants were coming across the border after an outbreak of typhus in El Paso, they were literally sprayed with insecticide.
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