parathion

1. 1.

   a colorless and odorless toxic oil used as an insecticide

   Broaderinsecticide

Other forms of parathion

plural

parathions·

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.

Questions about parathion

What does parathion mean?

parathion means "a colorless and odorless toxic oil used as an insecticide".

How many syllables are in parathion?

parathion has 4 syllables: pa-ra-thi-on. The stress falls on "ra".

Is parathion a common word?

parathion 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.