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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An isomer of the chlorocarbon C6H6Cl6, obtained as a white crystalline powder and having a musty odor. A potent pesticide, it has been banned from agricultural use in several countries including the United States, but is used topically in the treatment of scabies and pediculosis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A chemical substance (C6H6Cl6) used as an agricultural insecticide.

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  • noun organic chemistry The organochlorine insecticide 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexachlorocyclohexane

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  • noun a white crystalline powder used as an agricultural insecticide

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Teunis van der Linden, 20th-century Dutch chemist.]

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