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PESTICIDE POISONING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pesticide poisoning mean?
• PESTICIDE POISONING (noun)
The noun PESTICIDE POISONING has 1 sense:
1. toxic condition resulting from ingesting or inhaling a pesticide
Familiarity information: PESTICIDE POISONING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Toxic condition resulting from ingesting or inhaling a pesticide
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("pesticide poisoning" is a kind of...):
intoxication; poisoning; toxic condition (the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pesticide poisoning"):
malathion poisoning (a toxic condition caused by inhaling or ingesting the insecticide Malathion)
parathion poisoning (a toxic condition resulting from inhalation or ingestion of the insecticide parathion; characterized by nausea and abdominal pains and headache and convulsions and sweating)
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