Word.ws English Dictionary

paradichlorobenzene

paradichlorobenzene noun: 1,4-dichlorobenzene, an organic compound used as a pesticide (i.e., mothballs) and a deodorant.

Noun

paradichlorobenzene (countable and uncountable, plural paradichlorobenzenes)

  1. 1,4-dichlorobenzene, an organic compound used as a pesticide (i.e., mothballs) and a deodorant.

Forms of paradichlorobenzene

pluralparadichlorobenzenes

Origin of paradichlorobenzene

From para- + dichlorobenzene.

Questions about paradichlorobenzene

What does paradichlorobenzene mean?
Paradichlorobenzene means 1,4-dichlorobenzene, an organic compound used as a pesticide (i.e., mothballs) and a deodorant.
What part of speech is paradichlorobenzene?
Paradichlorobenzene is a noun.
What is the plural of paradichlorobenzene?
The plural of paradichlorobenzene is paradichlorobenzenes.

Words near paradichlorobenzene in the dictionary

  1. paradiastole
  2. paradiastoles
  3. paradiastolic
  4. paradiazine
  5. paradiazines
  6. paradichlorobenzene
  7. paradichlorobenzenes
  8. paradiddle
  9. paradiddle diddle
  10. paradiddle diddles
  11. paradiddle-diddle

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: paradichlorobenzene (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “paradichlorobenzene.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/paradichlorobenzene. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.