dimethoate

[ dahy-meth-oh-eyt ]

nounChemistry.
  1. a highly toxic crystalline compound, C5H12NO3PS2, used as an insecticide.

Origin of dimethoate

1
1955–60; probably dimeth(yl) + -(thi)oate, components of the chemical name

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