NOUN
- a white crystalline insecticide that has low toxicity for mammals; is used in home gardens; extracted from the roots of derris and cube
How To Use rotenone In A Sentence
- Rotenone and pyrethrum don't work, even if applied more frequently.
- By the mid 1800s, the heads of chrysanthemum flowers were used to obtain pyrethrum, and rotenone was extracted from the derris plant.
- A hard spray of water will knock some bugs off the plants and a dusting of a non-toxic substance called rotenone shuts off their breathing mechanism.
- Thousands of gallons of fish poison, called rotenone, were dumped in the canal around 8 p.m. JSOnline.com
- By the mid 1800s, the heads of chrysanthemum flowers were used to obtain pyrethrum, and rotenone was extracted from the derris plant.
- Diploid clones insensitive to rotenone and sensitive to antimycin A + myxothiazol were selected.
- A good dusting of rotenone is effective, as is hand-picking, or giving the bush a good, hard shake.
- We selected five compounds, genistein, metaproterenol, rotenone, p-anisidine and resorcinol, that had extensive genotoxicity and carcinogenicity data and tested them in the standard 7 day exposure SHE assay.
- For example, rotenone, an insecticide derived from a tropical root called derris, is as poisonous to humans as organophosphate chemical pesticides. Organic Gardener's Composting
- This product contained the active ingredients rotenone and dichlorvos - and dichlorvos, I later learned, is an organophosphate.
