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AGENT ORANGE

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• AGENT ORANGE (noun)
The noun AGENT ORANGE has 1 sense:

1. a herbicide used in the Vietnam War to defoliate forest areas

Familiarity information: AGENT ORANGE used as a noun is very rare.

• AGENT ORANGE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A herbicide used in the Vietnam War to defoliate forest areas

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("Agent Orange" is a kind of...):

herbicide; weed killer; weedkiller (a chemical agent that destroys plants or inhibits their growth)

Meronyms (substance of "Agent Orange"):

dioxin (any of several toxic or carcinogenic hydrocarbons that occur as impurities in herbicides)

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