insecticide

IPA: ɪnsˈɛktʌsaɪd

Examples of "insecticide" in Sentences

Phoxim is a short-term insecticide with a "knock-down" effect.
I used a pyrethrin based insecticide, which is usually safe for other life forms, excluding insects.
There is a remedy in the powder known as insecticide, which, however, is very disagreeable upon books and shelves.
For those that don’t know Will – he doesn’t really believe in insecticide, but he and I both agreed this spider was big AND fast enough for the justification for the use of the can of spray.
Neonictinoids are inserted into the seed enabling the insecticide, which is water-soluble, to move throughout its system where ultimately the toxicity is transferred to the nectar and pollen.
As any environmentalist can tell you, insecticide is not very nice stuff — especially if you breathe it, which many Third World farmers do as they walk through their fields with backpack sprayers.