Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun organophosphate_nerve_agent

1 sense of organophosphate nerve agent

Sense 1
organophosphate nerve agent -- (any of a series of nerve agents containing organophosphate compounds first synthesized by German chemists in 1936; in World War II the Germans tested them in concentration camps but not on the battlefield; Iraq is alleged to have used them against Iran and against the Kurds)
       => nerve gas, nerve agent -- (a toxic gas that is inhaled or absorbed through the skin and has harmful effects on the nervous and respiratory system)