lime sulfur

or lime sulphur

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noun Chemistry.

a mixture of lime and sulfur that has been boiled in water: used in powdered form or in aqueous solution as an insecticide, a fungicide, and a sheep dip.

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Origin of lime sulfur

First recorded in 1905–10

Words nearby lime sulfur

limes, limescale, limestone, limestone lettuce, limestone pavement, lime sulfur, lime tree, lime twig, limewater, limewood, limey

How to use lime sulfur in a sentence

Think wearing yellow lipstick, lime-green nails, and a SpongeBob SquarePants jumper with no trousers.
The Improbable Rise of Rita Ora: A Guide for the Modern-Day Celebrity|Emma Gannon|May 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Some were injected with chemicals or dosed in lime for better preservation.
Palermo Has an Underground City Filled With Its Mummified Dead|Nina Strochlic|May 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
At a taco truck in New York I asked how their lime stock was faring.
Limepocalypse! Inside the Great Lime Shortage of 2014|Kara Cutruzzula|April 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Maybe all this Sturm und Drang will give birth to a new lime-lite generation of cocktails.
Limepocalypse! Inside the Great Lime Shortage of 2014|Kara Cutruzzula|April 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The verjus gives it that hit of sour acid, which is what we generally use lime for in cocktails.
Limepocalypse! Inside the Great Lime Shortage of 2014|Kara Cutruzzula|April 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Myiodynastes luteiventris luteiventris Sclater: Sulfur-bellied Flycatcher.
Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula|Erwin E. Klaas
Why not have sought out the pure white lime-rocks of the flat country, or the grey granite of the hills?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
For instance, the Limestone Polypody is not happy unless there is a certain amount of lime present in the soil.
How to Know the Ferns|S. Leonard Bastin
But, before they can be used for this purpose, these leaves are coated with lime made from oyster shells and then folded up.
Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin|Mary Hazelton Wade
The acid is extracted from the juice of the citron, the lime, and the lemon, fruits grown in Sicily and the West Indies.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell