insecticide

Noun
  1. A chemical used to kill insects (synset 114944099)
    is a type of: pesticide - a chemical used to kill pests (as rodents or insects)
    subtypes:
    • pyrethrum - made of dried flower heads of pyrethrum plants
    • ddt, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane - an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans; banned in the United States since 1972
    • larvacide - an insecticide that kills the larvae of insects
    • lead arsenate - a poisonous white solid (Pb3[AsO4]2) used as an insecticide
    • lindane - a white crystalline powder used as an agricultural insecticide
    • malathion - a yellow insecticide used as a dust or spray to control garden pests and house flies and mites
    • organophosphate - an insecticide that interferes with an insect's nervous system
    • parathion - a colorless and odorless toxic oil used as an insecticide
    • paris green - a toxic double salt of copper arsenate and copper acetate
    • rotenone - a white crystalline insecticide that has low toxicity for mammals; is used in home gardens; extracted from the roots of derris and cube
    substance holonym: arsenic, as, atomic number 33 - 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
    same as: insect powder

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