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Chemical sprayed on plants
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defoliant
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An agent used to defoliate plants.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A defoliant is any chemical sprayed or dusted on plants to cause its leaves to fall off.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a chemical that is sprayed on plants and causes their leaves to fall off
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1943, from defoliate + -ant .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Chemical defoliants would not be used against crops, nor would producers be arrested or property confiscated.
Usage examples of defoliant.
So Pierre told about the Makonde people who straddle the frontier of Tanzania and Mozambiqueof the independent African republic, and the colony which the government in Lisbon insisted year after year was an integral part of metropolitan Portugal, using, as powerful arguments in their favour, Huey Cobra gunships, Fiat jet bombers, Agent Orange crop defoliants, and napalm raids.
In the twentieth and twenty-first it had been introduced to the sinister logic of bulldozers, flamethrowers, defoliants, and pesticides.
There were always the maimed in Vietnam, young adults scarred by the war and children deformed by its aftermath, dioxin-based chemical defoliants such as Agent Orange.