insecticide
Example Sentences
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Unable to afford insecticide, Cuba has been plagued by mosquito-born diseases, overwhelming medical facilities.
If trees are lightly or not-yet infested, they can be sprayed or injected with insecticides.
From Los Angeles Times
The chemicals shown to damage gut bacteria include pesticides such as herbicides and insecticides commonly applied to crops.
From Science Daily
But syrup producers do not plant, irrigate, fertilize or use insecticides on their self-sufficient forests.
For instance, insecticides are meant to affect insects, not humans or their resident microbes.
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
