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Insect powder   /ˈɪnsˌɛkt pˈaʊdər/   Listen
Insect powder

noun
1.
A chemical used to kill insects.  Synonym: insecticide.






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"Insect powder" Quotes from Famous Books



... invariably walked the shadow of Groholsky. . . . I call them shadows because they had both lost their natural appearance. They had grown thin and pale and shrunken, and looked more like shadows than living people. . . . Both were pining away like fleas in the classic anecdote of the Jew who sold insect powder. ...
— Love and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

... young women God ever made, and that without me you would probably get yourself into a still worse hole, I'd have refused." And then followed a list of the things she was to be sure to take with her, including a pound or two of Keating's insect powder, and a hint that it might save her trouble, if she had ...
— All Roads Lead to Calvary • Jerome K. Jerome



Words linked to "Insect powder" :   pesticide, DDT, organophosphate, pyrethrum, lead arsenate, Paris green, atomic number 33, lindane, parathion, larvacide, rotenone, as, Malathion, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, arsenic



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