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PYRETHRINS

Specialty Definition: PYRETHRINS

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Health

The active insecticidal constituent of pyrethrum flowers. Pyrethrin I is the pyretholone ester of chrysanthemummonocarboxylic acid and pyrethrin II is the pyretholone ester of chrysanthemumdicarboxylic acid monomethyl ester. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: PYRETHRINS

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Health

Permethrins are similar to natural pyrethrins. (references)

Pyrethrins are natural extracts from the chrysanthemum flower. (references)

Though safe and effective, pyrethrins only kill crawling lice, not unhatched nits. A second treatment is recommended in 7-10 days to kill any newly hatched lice. Treatment failures are common. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PYRETHRINS

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

pyrethrins

43

overexposure pyrethrins

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: PYRETHRINS

Language Translations for "PYRETHRINS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

Pyrethriner. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Pyrethrinen. (various references)

   

French

  

Pyréthrines, pyrèthres. (various references)

   

German

  

Pyrethrine (pyrethrine). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τα πιο τυπικά και ευρύτερα χρησιμοποιούμενα εντομοκτόνα επαφής είναι εκχύλισμα καπνού,θειϊκή νικοτίνη,παράγωγα του φυτού κάσσια(που περι (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). (various references)

   

Italian

  

Piretrine (pyrethrine). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

yrethrinspay

   

Portuguese

  

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). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: PYRETHRINS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-i-n-p-r-r-s-t-y"

-1 letter: pyrethrin.

-2 letters: printers, printery, reprints, sprinter.

-3 letters: hinters, hipster, phrensy, printer, pterins, pyrites, reprint, striper, trypsin.

-4 letters: esprit, estrin, henrys, hinter, hirers, inerts, insert, instep, inters, niters, nitery, nitres, perish, pinery, priers, priest, prints, pryers, pterin, pyrite, repins, reship, resiny, rinser, ripens, ripest, sentry, sherry, shiner, shirty, shrine, sinter, sniper, sphery, spinet, sprent, sprier.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-i-n-p-r-r-s-t-y"
 

+2 letters: platyrrhines.

 

+4 letters: hypermodernist, hypersecretion, phycoerythrins.

 

+5 letters: erythropoietins, hyperexcretions, hypermodernists, hypersecretions, neuropsychiatry.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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