Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An amber liquid, C12H21N2O3PS, used as an insecticide.

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  • noun An organophosphorus insecticide used to control fleas etc.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[diazin(e) + –on.]

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Examples

  • Over the years, the EPA has banned some insecticides considered too risky from use in the home market, such as diazinon and chlorpyrifos.

    Death by Mint Oil: Natural Pesticides 2009

  • Here in the Bay Area where I live, according to the EPA, all of our creeks are contaminated with significant levels of pesticides, especially diazinon, an insecticide that was banned for home use 10 years ago because of its toxicity to mammals.

    Annie Spiegelman: A Green New Year's Resolution: Quit the Pesticide Man Annie Spiegelman 2011

  • Others blame the comeback of bedbugs on their resistance to DDT's many substitutes e.g., malathion, diazinon, lindane, chlordane, dichlorovos and now pyrethroids.

    Bill Chameides: Is Propoxur the Way to Not Let the Bedbugs Bite? Bill Chameides 2011

  • Here in the Bay Area where I live, according to the EPA, all of our creeks are contaminated with significant levels of pesticides, especially diazinon,...

    Annie Spiegelman: A Green New Year's Resolution: Quit the Pesticide Man Annie Spiegelman 2011

  • • In 2007, EPA canceled diazinon uses on about 20 different crops -- primarily vegetables -- including broccoli, sweet corn, melons, tomatoes and spinach.

    Donald Carr: Taxpayers Funding Pro-Pesticide PR Campaign Donald Carr 2010

  • One of these pesticides, diazinon, is the most commonly used pesticide for roses and other ornamental garden plants.

    Dr. Walter Crinnion: Organic Food: Dear Mr. President, Go Organic! 2010

  • Under the settlement of a lawsuit brought by anti-pesticide groups and salmon fishermen, NOAA Fisheries has issued a draft biological opinion that found the way chlorpyrifos, diazinon and malathion get into salmon streams at levels high enough to kill salmon protected by the Endangered Species Act.

    Feds:Common pesticides jeopardize salmon survival GreenFertility 2008

  • Beyond Pesticides has compiled a list of 25 pesticides commonly used or recommended for use by state agricultural extension services, including: 2,4-D, bifenthrin, chlorpyrifos, diazinon, endosulfan, esfenvalerate, glyphosate, simazine and more.

    Christmas trees loaded with pesticides GreenFertility 2008

  • Under the settlement of a lawsuit brought by anti-pesticide groups and salmon fishermen, NOAA Fisheries has issued a draft biological opinion that found the way chlorpyrifos, diazinon and malathion get into salmon streams at levels high enough to kill salmon protected by the Endangered Species Act.

    Archive 2008-08-01 GreenFertility 2008

  • They are in such pesticides as chlorpyrifos, methyl parathion and diazinon...which can affect the development of the brain and the nervous system

    Archive 2006-08-01 GreenFertility 2006

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