Definition of "dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane" []

• DDT. (noun)

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• "It's called dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane or DDT."
• "A book documenting among other things the effect of an environmental pesticide ingredient known as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, called DDT for short awakened a population to the danger of pollutants."
• "Pesticides such as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) are used primarily to control malaria as well as in the veterinary sector to control plague-transmitting fleas and trypanosomiasis transmitting tsetse flies."