paraquat

Examples

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• About three-quarters of these women hang themselves, while virtually all the rest die from consuming the agricultural pesticide paraquat.

  Academic text (2007)

• They also have low fecundity and hypersensitivity to hyperoxia and paraquat, and A352V has slow development.

  Academic text (2017)

• You human paraquat.

  The Big Lebowski (1998)

• At the risk of belaboring what should be all too obvious, restricting paraquat will not improve the lives of these poor women.

  Academic text (2007)

• Paraquat and sodium chloride were the only desiccants available for many years.

  Academic text (2011)

• For example, if precipitation occurs after a paraquat application, the stems may fail under the strain of moisture-laden heads, which may reduce harvesting efficiency in addition to causing an increased risk of disease.

  Academic text (2011)

• This resistance to glyphosate, which is now ravaging the nation's South and Midwest, leads to the use of more toxic pesticides such as paraquat and 2,4-D, one component of the Vietnam War defoliant, Agent Orange.

  Blog text (23)

• The recommendation of the author whose article chronicles all these suicides is so myopic as to almost caricature the more guns equal more death mindset: to reduce suicide by Indian women, she recommends that the Fijian state stringently control paraquat.

  Academic text (2007)

• Farmers often use paraquat as a herbicide to control stubborn weeds in their fields.

• Due to its toxicity, handling paraquat requires strict safety precautions to prevent health risks.

Antonyms

N

non-poisonous

2.5

Safe to eat, touch, or use

Compounds

P

paraquat poisoning

• Specialized

8.7

Serious injury from swallowing or touching paraquat that slowly damages the mouth, throat, liver, and kidneys

Surface Forms

Etymology