Associations to the word «Parathion»

Wiktionary

PARATHION, noun. O,O-Diethyl-O-4-nitro-phenylthiophosphate, a powerful, dangerously toxic insecticide.

Dictionary definition

PARATHION, noun. A colorless and odorless toxic oil used as an insecticide.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne