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Definition of Pyrethroid
1. Noun. (organic chemistry) Any of several synthetic insecticides having a structure based on pyrethrin ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pyrethroid
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyrethroid
Literary usage of Pyrethroid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rice Tungro Disease Management by T. C. B. Chancellor, O. Azzam, Kong Luen Heong (1999)
"Moreover, none of the five pyrethroid insecticides tested significantly affected
natural enemy populations at 35 DAT (Tables 2-6). ..."
2. Recognition & Management of Pesticide Poisoning by Donald P. Morgan (1989)
"Ingestion of pyrethroid insecticide presents relatively little risk. ... If only
small amounts of pyrethroid have been ingested, or if treatment has been ..."
3. Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses: Final Report edited by Joyce C Laslof, Marguerite Knox, John D Baldeschwieler (1997)
"pyrethroid pesticides. DOD shipped the pyrethroid insecticide permethrin to the
Gulf for use as an insect repellent. Permethrin is used widely in the United ..."
4. Children's Environmental Health Research: Indoor Mold and Children's Health edited by Allen Dearry, Gwen Collman (2000)
"Estrogenic potential of certain pyrethroid compounds in the human breast carcinoma
cell line MCF7. Environ Health Perspect 107:173-177 (1999). 50. ..."
5. The Health Gap: Beyond Pregnancy and Reproduction by Jennifer Kitts, Janet Hatcher Roberts (1996)
"49) in Women and Tropical Diseases: It is [women] who will bring the family bed
nets to the health centres to be dipped in pyrethroid suspension, ..."
6. Vector-borne Disease Control in Humans Through Rice Agroecosystem Management by Virgilio G. Enriquez, International Rice Research Institute (1988)
"... and pyrethroid insecticides (Yasutomi and Takahashi 1987). They found surprisingly
high resistance to the organophosphorus malathion and fenitrothion, ..."
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