Definition of Paris green

1. Noun. A toxic double salt of copper arsenate and copper acetate.


2. Noun. A shade of green tinged with yellow.
Exact synonyms: Chartreuse, Pea Green, Yellow Green, Yellowish Green
Generic synonyms: Green, Greenness, Viridity
Derivative terms: Chartreuse

Definition of Paris green

1. Noun. copper(II) acetoarsenite, a highly toxic blue-green compound used as a pigment, colorant, insecticide and rodenticide. ¹

2. Adjective. A shade of pale green, originally produced with Copper(II) acetoarsenite ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Paris green

1. Cupric acetoarsenite, used as an insecticide and as a pigment. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Paris Green

Parians
Paridae
Parietales
Parietaria
Parietaria difussa
Parinaud
Parinaud's conjunctivitis
Parinaud's oculoglandular syndrome
Parinaud's ophthalmoplegia
Parinaud's syndrome
Parioli
Paris
Paris-Brest
Paris University
Paris daisy
Paris green
Paris line
Paris quadrifolia
Paris syndrome
Paris yellow
Parisian
Parisians
Parisienne
Parisiennes
Parisine
Parjanya
Parji
Park's aneurysm
Park-Williams bacillus

Literary usage of Paris green

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1901)
"A quantity of paris green was weighed on a filter and extracted with cold water. ... paris green A 2 l.o1 4 1.68 8 2.69 " " 1t 4.02 14 4.02 " " B 9 3.41 12 ..."

2. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1907)
"RESOLUTION RELATIVE TO paris green. PROP. CW WOODWORTH offered the following resolution referring to paris green, which was referred to the Committee on ..."

3. Biennial Report by Oregon Board of Horticulture (1905)
"Directions—Slack the lime; make a paste of the paris green, ... paris green is one of our commercial articles which is shamefully adulterated. ..."

4. Manual of Fruit Insects by Mark Vernon Slingerland, Cyrus Richard Crosby (1914)
"By the National Insecticide Law of 1910 paris green must contain at least ... For many years paris green has been the standard arsenical insecticide for ..."

5. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1874)
"Of these one hundred reported that no experiments with paris green or arsenical ... Efficacy of paris green.—Of the seventy returns reporting actual ..."

6. The Review of Applied Entomology by Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, Imperial Bureau of Entomology (1916)
"A mixture of lead arsenate in the proportion of 1 to 30 is recommended for use on young maize, while a 1 to 100 mixture of paris green and starch can be ..."

7. Report of the Secretary for Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1876)
"These subsequent questions were suggested by the fears entertained by some of our correspondents that, when Paris-green was applied to crops year after year ..."

8. Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1876)
"When sufficient time had elapsed to obtain a comparison of effects, it was found that in the case of the Paris- green series of pots the plants in 1, 2, 3, ..."

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