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malathion

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9 lettersPart of speech nounSorted aahilmnotStarts with MEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a yellow insecticide used as a dust or spray to control garden pests and house flies and mites

Word origin

From malate + -thion. Coined as a trade name.

Used in a sentence

  • "Although effective in degrading pesticides with P-O bonds, washing of the vegetables sprayed with the thiolester organophosphate insecticide malathion with the enzyme did not yield any improved degradation."

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