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say it: muh-LATH-ee-awn
malathion is a noun meaning "a yellow insecticide used as a dust or spray to control garden pests and house flies and mites". It carries one recorded sense.
a yellow insecticide used as a dust or spray to control garden pests and house flies and mites
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Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for malathion come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.