dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane

What does dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane mean?

dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane means "an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans; banned in the United States since 1972".

How many syllables are in dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane?

dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane has 11 syllables and divides as dich-lo-ro-di-phe-nyl-trich-lo-ro-e-thane under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane?

Close synonyms include DDT. 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 dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane a common word?

dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.