Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

zineb

/ˈzɪnɛb/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.34 in modern English

Syllables: zineb
IPA: /ˈzɪnɛb/

16

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An organic fungicide and insecticide sprayed on cereal grasses, fruit trees, etc.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From “zinc ethylene bisdithiocarbamate”, its chemical name.

Usage

Inflected Forms

zinebs (plural)

Derived Forms

mancozeb

Questions

How do you pronounce zineb?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈzɪnɛb/.
What does zineb mean?: An organic fungicide and insecticide sprayed on cereal grasses, fruit trees, etc.
Where does zineb come from?: From “zinc ethylene bisdithiocarbamate”, its chemical name.

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