insect powder

1. 1.

   a chemical used to kill insects

   Synonymsinsecticide

   Broaderpesticide

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Questions about insect powder

What does insect powder mean?

insect powder means "a chemical used to kill insects".

What is another word for insect powder?

Close synonyms include insecticide. 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 insect powder a common word?

insect powder 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.