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Definition of Insect powder

1. Noun. A chemical used to kill insects.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Insect Powder

Literary usage of Insect powder

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Druggist (1889)
"In Persian insect powder I could detect only ... Most conspicuous among the fragments of the marginal corolla in insect powder are ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"The insect powder ... "Dalmatian insect powder "is one of the commonest insecticides, especially for household pests. ..."

3. The Microscopy of Technical Products by Thomas Franz Hanausek (1907)
"insect powder.2 insect powder, or pyrethrum, consists of the medium or finely ground flower heads of several species of the genus Chrysanthemum (subgenus ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1872)
"What is the mode of action of " -insect powder," the flowers of Pyrethrum ... IN regard to the mode of action of the "insect powder," we are led to the ..."

5. Applied Entomology; an Introductory Text-book of Insects in Their Relations by Henry Torsey Fernald (1921)
"Pyrethrum, insect powder or Buhach.—This is made by grinding up the blossoms of certain plants, which contain an essential (and volatile) oil effective ..."

6. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1889)
"insect powder—Distinction of Dalmatian from the Persian Powder.— John Kirkby contributed an interesting paper on " insect powder," to the British ..."

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