carbon dichloride

1. 1.

   anthelmintic agent used against hookworm and other nematodes

   Synonymstetrachlorethylenetetrachloroethyleneethylene tetrachloride

   Broadervermifuge

Questions about carbon dichloride

What does carbon dichloride mean?

carbon dichloride means "anthelmintic agent used against hookworm and other nematodes".

What is another word for carbon dichloride?

Close synonyms include tetrachlorethylene, tetrachloroethylene, ethylene tetrachloride. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carbon dichloride a common word?

carbon dichloride is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.