Crossword-Solution: ROTENONE
We have 5 clues for the answer “ROTENONE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Compound used to treat chiggers and scabies | 1 answer |
| Insecticide substance | 1 answer |
| Organic insecticide | 1 answer |
| white odourless crystalline substance extracted from the roots of derris: a powerful insecticide | 1 answer |
| insecticide | 23 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "ROTENONE"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Section of a curve
?
A
?
R
?
C
Hint 1 meaning
The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the
sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the
daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night.
Hint 2 anagram
CRA
Hint 3 another clue
AID WHEN GOING TO COURT
37 +1
New Suggestion for "ROTENONE"
Related word tools
Sentences with ROTENONE (5)
For example, rotenone, an insecticide derived from a tropical root called derris, is as poisonous to humans as organophosphate chemical pesticides.
But once I dusted an entire raised bed of beetle-threatened bush bean seedlings with powdered rotenone late in the afternoon.
Unexpectedly, it rained rather hard that evening and still-active rotenone was washed off the leaves and deeply into the soil.
Mixing foliar feed solutions with a little spreader/sticker, Safer's Soap, or, if bugs are also a problem, with a liquid organic insecticide like Red Arrow (a pyrethrum-rotenone mix), eliminates surface tension and allows the fertilizer to have an effect on brassicas.
Rotenone, which, I believe, is one of your main insecticides in nut culture, is fairly effective on Japanese beetles.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1981–2006).