pesticide
IPA: pˈɛstʌsaɪd
noun
- Anything, especially a synthetic substance but also any substance (e.g. sulfur), or virus, bacterium, or other organism, which kills or suppresses the activities of pests.
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Examples of "pesticide" in Sentences
- It is one of the most hazardous pesticides.
- The term pesticide also includes these substances:
- The ship is also carrying the pesticide, endosulfan.
- It was originally used as a pesticide and as a germicide.
- The substance is banned as a pesticide by the government.
- It is also the home of the pesticide company Vima Chemical.
- Monitoring of pesticide residues in the UK began in the 1950s.
- In the absence of pesticides, aphids and true bugs may infest plants.
- An extract of epazote is the active ingredient of the pesticide Requiem.
- Gracie notices that the pesticide was stolen and reports it to the police.
- In 1998, the use of pesticides and fertilizers in the area was restricted.
- I can see why he opposes the word pesticide; nevertheless, MA is a flavoring agent that isn’t harmful to humans.
- Though often misunderstood to refer only to insecticides, the term pesticide also applies to herbicides, fungicides, and various other substances used to control pests.
- Piperonyl Butoxide or N-Octyl Bicycloheptene Dicarboximide Not poisons on their own, these so-called pesticide synergists block the enzyme that breaks down pyrethrin in insects.
- Though often misunderstood to refer only to insecticides, the term pesticide also applies to herbicides, fungicides, rodenticides, molluscicides and various other substances used to control pests.
- EPA's actions under FQPA have been credited for a major reduction in pesticide risks, and in what was then considered revolutionary -- targeting pesticides in foods most commonly eaten by children.
- When you read a pitch from some enviro group about some pesticide, knowing that this pesticide is unstable and degrades in air, you soon realize that these people are lying through their teeth, either that or are ignorant of chemistry and are just making stuff up because is sounds good.
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