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Answer for the clue "The dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft) ", 8 letters:
spraying

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft) [syn: crop-dusting ] a quantity of small objects flying through the air; "a spray of bullets" [syn: spray ] the application of a liquid in ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is sprayed. vb. (present participle of spray English)

Usage examples of spraying.

The wash-head was operating, spraying the windows and his abseil rope as it travelled down after him.

Eventually someone hit on the idea of breeding typhus in the labs and spraying it in an aerosol form from airplanes.

Keeping pants tucked into socks, taking Atabrine tablets at mealtime, and spraying the island with DDT were all measures taken to help prevent the troops from getting infected.

The Carbine bucked as he pulled the trigger, the bullets biting into the lip of the brick wall, spraying dust and chunks of brick in every direction.

Sarah sneezed explosively, spraying the man rising off her head with his own ejaculate, some of which carried to Alfred and Jane.

AAs and how they all seem like limp smug moronic self-satisfied shit-eating pricks with their lobotomized smiles and goopy sentiment and how he wishes them all violent technicolor harm in the worst way, new Gately sitting there spraying vitriol, wet-lipped and red-eared, trying to get kicked out, purposely trying to outrage the AAs into giving him the boot so he could quick-march back to Ennet House and tell crippled Pat Montesian and his counselor Gene M.

The spraying could be conducted with the herbicide glyphosate, which is used by many Americans on their own gardens under the trade name Roundup.

The soldier did not wait for Luis to read the note but gunned his throttle and puttered off, spraying the Tiger.

Kerry and Charbon were still spraying the starside dark with the lidar search beams, Charbon alert for enemies, Kerry hoping for friends.

Scarpetta starts by spraying luminol on a control sample of blood, a single dried drop on a square of cardboard, and it glows greenish-blue and fades.

Lucy starts spraying in wide sweeps over the yard, walking and spraying and the grass glows bluish-green, glowing and fading like an eerie luminescent ocean everywhere the luminol touches.

The good hygiene discipline now practised by all our units in Burma, the use of the new drug Mepacrine, and constant spraying with D.

These are used when the milder current is desired, and for spraying, sparking, etc.

His remaining partner offered Drozd his backup regulator, but Drozd, knife still in hand, slashed wildly at the man, his mind spraying in a million directions, his narcosis pummeling.

There was no sign of Opie Kindred, but tethered above the growths were the balloons of his spraying mechanism.