herbicide
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈhɜːrbɪˌsaɪd/
- Specialized
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herbicida
- Farmers use herbicide to control unwanted plants in their fields.
- herbicide-resistant
- herbicide-resistant weeds
- herbicide application
It's a very specific, it's a very specific herbicide that kills the weeds and not the grass.
- It's a very specific, it's a very specific herbicide that kills the weeds and not the grass.
- Now it's very well known now that atrazine is in many herbicides.
- And one thing that my lab has been working on is what happens when you seed after you spray herbicides.
- However, if one tried to legalize an herbicide like glyphosate today, it would never pass.
- And a herbicide like Roundup or is something you put on your spray on your garden that kills weeds.
- It's not like the non-GMO soy doesn't, doesn't get herbicides on it.
- That's bleach, that's that's pesticides, herbicides, that spray, that's, that's creating the cotton in the fields.
- So organic is the organic requirement is that you can't use synthetically derive, you know, pesticides, herbicides.
- Essentially organic fibers are plants like cotton that are farmed without pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, you know, harmful chemicals like that.
Examples
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A literature survey had suggested that resistance to herbicides might be the most costly form of stress resistance.
Academic text (1996) -
Second, these crops will facilitate a significant increase in herbicide use, with potential negative consequences for environmental quality.
Academic text (2012) -
And a broad spectrum herbicide kills all different types of plants.
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It's a broad spectrum herbicide known as Grazon.
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However, if one tried to legalize an herbicide like glyphosate today, it would never pass.
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Differences in height were seen among herbicide treatments in all years observed except 2013 (Table 4).
Academic text (2017) -
Furthermore, it can be tank mixed with a glyphosate-based herbicide to control grasses.
Academic text (2011) -
Recent research has also demonstrated that IWM strategies are effective in managing herbicide-resistant weeds.
Academic text (2012) -
In 2010, a saflufenacil-based herbicide became available for desiccating sunflowers and controlling broad-leafed weeds.
Academic text (2011) -
Today, farmers in the region apply 54 kilograms of herbicides, pesticides, and defoliants to each hectare.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
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3.2
A substance that kills unwanted plants in gardens or on lawns
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3.5
A chemical that kills unwanted plants like weeds
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Etymology
Herbicide is made of herb- meaning 'plant' and -cide meaning 'kill', the same -cide you see in pesticide. So a herbicide is a chemical that 'kills plants' or stops their growth.