Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun DDT.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun organic chemistry A
chlorinated hydrocarbon which is mainly used as aninsecticide . Mostly abbreviated asDDT .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans; banned in the United States since 1972
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane.
Examples
-
It's called dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane or DDT.
Craig and Marc Kielburger: Swatting Out Malaria with Education 2009
-
A book documenting among other things the effect of an environmental pesticide ingredient known as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, called DDT for short awakened a population to the danger of pollutants.
EzineArticles 2010
-
Pesticides such as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) are used primarily to control malaria as well as in the veterinary sector to control plague-transmitting fleas and trypanosomiasis transmitting tsetse flies.
-
DDT--dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane--is perhaps the most effective tool in the arsenal to combat the deadly malaria pandemic.
Should We Feed Hungry People, Even If It's Bad For The Environment? 2011
-
DDT--dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane--is perhaps the most effective tool in the arsenal to combat the deadly malaria pandemic.
Should We Feed Hungry People, Even If It's Bad For The Environment? 2011
-
And we found in my blood trace levels of PCBs [Polychlorinated biphenyls - a man-made organic chemical], DDT [dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane - a synthetic pesticide], PFCs [Perfluorocarbons - linked to infertility] and high levels of flame retardant.
-
Coincidentally, and perhaps ironically, an expert committee convened by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is also meeting this week, in Geneva, to discuss dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane or DDT, an anti-malaria insecticide that has been saving lives since 1945.
Free the Fight Against Malaria Richard Nchabi Kamwi 2010
-
Over the past 30 years, a global outcry against using the pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, or DDT, has led to the resurgence of the mosquito, a voracious consumer of human blood and carrier of infectious disease.
Scott Dodd: Climate Change Drives Dengue Fever Re-Emergence in U.S. 2010
-
In Africa these include dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and Chlordane.
-
Some examples of POPS are polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxins, and pesticides like dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), chlordane, and dieldrin.
Baby Bites Bridget Swinney 2007
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.