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"INSECTICIDES" is a plural of: insecticide. |
Date "INSECTICIDES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1991. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Pesticides designed to control insects that are harmful to man. The insects may be directly harmful, as those acting as disease vectors, or indirectly harmful, as destroyers of crops, food products, or textile fabrics. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An Insecticide is a pesticide whose purpose is to kill or to prevent the multiplication of insects.Some insecticides have been banned due to their adverse effects on animals or humans.
DDT is an example of a heavily used and misused pesticide. One of the better known impacts of DDT is to reduce the thickness of the egg shells on predatory birds. The shells sometimes become too thin to be viable, causing reductions in bird populations. This occurs with DDT and a number of related compounds due to the process of bioaccumulation, wherein the chemical, due to its stability and fat solubility, accumulates to progressively higher concentrations in the body fat of animals farther up the food chain. The near-worldwide ban on DDT and related chemicals has allowed some of these birds--such as the peregrine falcon--to recover in recent years.
Misuse of insecticides is a major factor in pollinator decline.
Individual insecticides:
See also : EPA
- Chlorinated, several now banned because of their ecological persistence:
- Aldrin
- Chlordane
- Dieldrin
- DDT
- Lindane
- Organophosphorus (chemically similar to Nerve agents)
- Diazinon
- Malathion
- Plant toxin derived:
- Derris (rotenone)
- Pyrethrum
- Others:
- Cypermethrin
- Branded products:
- Black Flag (insecticide)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Insecticide."
Synonym: INSECTICIDESSynonym: Pesticides. (additional references) |
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 | Insecticides are important in disease prevention through vector control. Credit: CDC. |  | No more jitters about crawly critters-our new roach bait belongs to a family of insecticides called flurosulfonates. Discovered and patented by ARS scientists, these compounds work to control cockroaches, ants, and termites-insects that live in groups or colonies. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | Formosan Subterranean soldier termites (darker heads and mandibles) and worker termites in test tubes. The white disks at the bottom of the tubes contain different insecticides to guage their tolerance level. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Spray clothing with permethrin-containing insecticides. (references) | |
Use insecticides to kill insects and reduce the risk of transmission. (references) | ||
These drugs are insecticides and can be dangerous when misused or overused. (references) | ||
Business | The output of insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides account for 71.3%, 15.8% and 9.76% of total pesticides output, respectively. (references) | |
Nevertheless only recently have farmers been open to incorporate a “technology package” of professional assistance, seeds, fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides, irrigation, modern machinery and satellite information. (references) | ||
Over the past ten years Argentine farmers have been consistently incorporating new technologies, namely consultancy services, seeds, fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides, modern machinery, satellite information and irrigation systems. (references) | ||
Economic History | Pakistan | Other major suppliers of insecticides are Germany, Switzerland, France, and the Netherlands. (references) |
Chad | Like fertilizer, insecticides for cotton cultivation are procured through international tenders. (references) | |
Chad | Comments: Insecticides are another agricultural input which U.S. firms have supplied in the past. (references) | |
Political Economy | COSTA RICA | All food products, medicines, toxic substances, chemicals, insecticides, pesticides, and agricultural inputs must be registered and certified by the Ministry of Health prior to sale. (references) |
PERU | The following imports are banned: several insecticides, fireworks, used clothing, used shoes, used tires, radioactive waste, cars over five years old, and trucks over eight years old. (references) | |
Trade | Bolivia | There is no production of insecticides in Bolivia; all are imported. (references) |
Worker Rights | Nicaragua | In May a court ordered several foreign companies to pay more that $1 billion (13.5 billion cordobas) to banana workers who had been exposed to insecticides from 1968 to 1983. (references) |
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| "INSECTICIDES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 93.42% of the time. "INSECTICIDES" is used about 76 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 93.42% | 71 | 39,674 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 3.95% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.63% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 76 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "INSECTICIDES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | syntetiske organiske insekticider med mangfoldige virkninger udgoer den gruppe af clorerede derivater, som inkluderer DDT( Dichlor-diphenyl-trichlor-ethan ), hexachlorcyclohexan-baserede insekticider og fosforsyreestere (hexachlorocyclohexane-based insecticides and phosphoric esters, multiple action synthetic organic insecticides constitue the group of chlorine der)vatives which include DDT ( dichlorodiphenyl-trichloro-ethane )). (various references) | |
Dutch | insekticiden, insektenwerende middelen, insektendodende middelen. (various references) | |
French | insecticides. (various references) | |
German | Insektizide, Insektenvertilgungsmittel, Insektenvernichtungsmittel. (various references) | |
Greek | εντομοκτόνα που περιέχουν μόλυβδο περιέχουν κυρίως ενώσεις μολύβδου-αρσενικού (insecticides containing lead are composed mainly of lead arsenic compounds), τα εντομοκτόνα στομάχου δεν έχουν καυστική ή ασφυκτική δράση;αυτά είναι κατάλληλα για την καταπολέμηση εντόμων με στοματικά μόρια μασητικ (stomach insecticides ( stomach poisons ) do not have a caustic or asphyctic action ; they are well suited for combatting biting insects and caterpillars ( coleoptera), ο αρσενικικός μόλυβδος συγκαταλέγεται μεταξύ των πιο σπουδαίων εντομοκτόνων στομάχου (lead arsenate may be included among the most important stomach insecticides ( stomach poison )). (various references) | |
Italian | insetticidi. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | insecticidesay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | os insecticidas orgânicos de síntese de acção múltipla constituem o grupo dos derivados de cloro,ao qual pertencem o DDT(dicloro difenilotricloroetano),os insecticidas base de hexaclorociclohexano(HCH)e os esteres fosfóricos (hexachlorocyclohexane-based insecticides and phosphoric esters, multiple action synthetic organic insecticides constitue the group of chlorine der)vatives which include DDT ( dichlorodiphenyl-trichloro-ethane )), os insecticidas de contacto mais típicos e mais utilizados são o extracto de tabaco,o sulfato de nicotina e os derivados da madeira de quássia que contêm um princípio activo denominado quassina,os produtos base de piretrina extraídos das flores d (derivatives of quassia wood ( containing an active principle called quassin ) ; the basic products of pyrethrins extracted from pyrethrum flowers, nicotine sulphate, or rotenones, the most typical and widely used contact insecticides are tobacco extract), os insecticidas contendo chumbo são principalmente compostos por chumbo-arsénio (insecticides containing lead are composed mainly of lead arsenic compounds), o arseniato de chumbo pode ser considerado como um dos mais importantes insecticidas de ingestão, (lead arsenate may be included among the most important stomach insecticides ( stomach poison )). (various references) | |
Russian | инсектицид (insecticide). (various references) | |
Spanish | los insecticidas que contienen plomo son principalmente compuestos de plomo-arsénico (insecticides containing lead are composed mainly of lead arsenic compounds), los insecticidas de contacto más típicos y más habituales son el extracto de tabaco, el sulfato de nicotina y los derivados de la madera de cuasia que contienen un principio activo denominado cuasina, los productos a base de piretrina y los obtenidos d (derivatives of quassia wood ( containing an active principle called quassin ) ; the basic products of pyrethrins extracted from pyrethrum flowers, nicotine sulphate, or rotenones, the most typical and widely used contact insecticides are tobacco extract), el arseniato de plomo puede ser considerado como uno de los más importantes insecticidas de ingestión (lead arsenate may be included among the most important stomach insecticides ( stomach poison )). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"INSECTICIDES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: incesticide, indecticide, insectacides, insectisides, insectoid, isecticides. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "INSECTICIDES" (pronounced i'nse"ktusī'dz) |
| 6 | -t u s ī' d z | pesticides. |
| 5 | -u s ī' d z | fratricides, fungicides, glucosides, herbicides, homicides, suicides. |
| 4 | -s ī' d z | downsides, hillsides, ironsides, mountainsides, oxides, roadsides, Silversides. |
| 3 | -ī' d z | azides, bromides, fluorides, iodides, landslides, overrides, peptides, polysaccharides, tellurides, triglycerides. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-e-i-i-i-n-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: insecticide. | |
-3 letters: densities, destinies, indictees. | |
-4 letters: centesis, descents, destines, indictee, insisted, niceties, sciences, sienites, tidiness. | |
-5 letters: deceits, deictic, deistic, deities, densest, descent, destine, diciest, dissect, dissent, eidetic, endites, enticed, entices, iciness, identic, incests, incised, incises, incited, incites, indices, indicts, indites, insects, insides, scented, science, sestine, sienite, snidest, tineids. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-d-e-e-i-i-i-n-s-s-t" | |
+4 letters: pseudoscientific. | |
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