herbicidal
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- adjective
- /ˌhɜːr.bɪˈsaɪ.dəl/
- Specialized
- Lieutenant Tom Dawson gets infected by Agent Orange-infused malaria, then mutates into this violent but misunderstood creature driven to insanity by the horrors of herbicidal warfare.
Examples
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Farmers often use herbicidal sprays to eliminate unwanted weeds from their fields.
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During the first several years after herbicidal spraying, more than four inches were lost to erosion in one area.
Academic text (1990) -
This fucking place here... bathed me in that lymphoma Agent Orange herbicidal stew.
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More than half of these chemicals consisted of Agent Orange, an herbicidal mixture of 50 percent 2,4-D and 50 percent 2,4,5-T.
Academic text (1990) -
And Edwards' experiments are increasingly convincing him that something in waste paper has herbicidal qualities, controlling weeds such as crabgrass better than commercial herbicides.
Academic text (1996) -
Indeed, when we target as "the enemy" any living plant that does not bear the favored qualities of a GM plant, and use the slash-and-burn, herbicidal approach to eradicate any competing plant life form, we are basically declaring war on the biosphere itself, and thereby setting up the future conditions for the collapse of our entire food production system, as well as poisoning ourselves in the process.
Blog text (25) -
The herbicidal properties of this product help control invasive plant species in gardens.
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During the growing season, the gardener relied on herbicidal treatments to keep the lawn looking pristine.
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Etymology
Herbicidal comes from the Latin root herb meaning 'plant' or 'herb' and the part -cidal meaning 'killing', like in pesticide. So something herbicidal is a 'plant-killer', used to destroy unwanted plants or weeds.