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DDT
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English
Etymology 1
Noun
- s
en organic compound en dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane compound originally developed as an insecticide.
en January 21, 2007 The Associated Press Adirondacks Are His Life, All 101 Years and Counting w:The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/sports/othersports/21outdoors.html After working briefly for a federal entomologist to control the spruce budworm — and spraying DDT from the air — he returned to the Adirondacks in 1946 to be district ranger at Cranberry Lake for 11 years. https://web.archive.org/web/20221126041511/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/sports/othersports/21outdoors.html 26 November 2022
en 2007 Wallace Peters; Geoffrey Pasvol Atlas of tropical medicine and parasitology 22 The use of DDT for disinfectation of louse-infested communities is a primary control measure in epidemic situations.
Etymology 2
Various theories; see DDT (professional wrestling).
Noun
en professional wrestling a move where a wrestler puts another wrestler into a standing front face lock and then falls backwards, driving the recipient's head into the floor.
Anagrams
en ddt DTD TDD
en Poisons
French
Pronunciation
dé-dé-té
fr Fr-Paris--DDT.ogg Paris
Noun
m -
fr dichlorodiphényltrichloroéthane
Spanish
es:
Pronunciation
dedeté +
Noun
m -
es organic compound en DDT chemical compound
es dedeté
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