a synthetic pesticide effective against sucking insects, used on crops including coffee and tobacco
disulfoton in American English
(daiˈsʌlfəˌtɑn)
noun
Chemistry
a pale-yellow, highly toxic liquid, C8H19O2PS3, used as an insecticide and miticide
Word origin
[1960–65; perh. di-1 + sulfo- + t(hi)on(ate)]This word is first recorded in the period 1960–65. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bicycle kick, go-go, proxemics, tag question, zip codedi- is a prefix occurring in loanwords from Greek, where it meant “two,” “twice,” “double”(diphthong). On this model, di- is freely used in the formation of compound words (dicotyledon; dipolar) and in chemical terms (diatomic; disulfide)