Acephate
a white solid compound, c 4 h 10 no 3 ps, used as an insecticide against a wide range of plant pests, including aphids, budworms, and tent caterpillars.
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- Acequia
an irrigation ditch. historical examples they are watered by an acequia that brings water from sun river several miles above the post. army letters from an officer’s wife, 1871-1888 frances m.a. roe i shall walk up the acequia to the rock i am going to blast. lone pine r. b. (richard baxter) townshend but when […]
- Aceramic
not producing pottery: an aceramic south american culture.
- Acerb
. historical examples she denied that stenographers could ever form a union, but she could not answer his acerb, “why not?” the job sinclair lewis
- Acerbate
to make sour or bitter. to exasperate. . historical examples the poor girl had not spirit sufficient to upbraid her friend; nor did it suit her now to acerbate an enemy. the way we live now anthony trollope lady laura had triumphed; but she had no desire to acerbate her husband by any unpalatable allusion […]
- Acerbically
sour or astringent in taste: lemon juice is acerbic. harsh or severe, as of temper or expression: acerbic criticism. adjective harsh, bitter, or astringent; sour adj. 1865, originally, and usually, figurative: “sour, harsh, severe” (of speech, manners, etc.), from latin acerbus “harsh to the taste, sharp, bitter, sour” (see acerbity) + -ic.