menazon

[ men-uh-zon ]

nounChemistry.
  1. a colorless, crystalline compound, C6H12N5O2PS2, used as a systemic insecticide, especially for control of aphids.

Origin of menazon

1
First recorded in 1960–65; me(thyl) + (ami)n(o)- + (tri)az(ine) + (thi)on(ate)

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