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pyrethrum

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9 lettersPronunciation /paɪˈɹiθɹəm/Part of speech nounSorted ehmprrtuyStarts with PEnds with M0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A chrysanthemum plant used to make natural insecticide.

Word origin

From Old English pyretre, from (and later reformed after) Latin pyrethrum (in Pliny), from Hellenistic Ancient Greek πύρεθρον (púrethron).

Used in a sentence

  • A common beverage credited with aphrodisiac virtue was old wine containing the pungent root of the plant pyrethrum or pellitory.
  • We children would re-tell the stories the following day to other children who worked in the fields picking the pyrethrum flowers, tea-leaves or coffee beans of our European and African landlords.

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