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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rainbow herbicide

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.78 in modern English

Syllables
rain-bow her-bi-cide
IPA
29
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a group of herbicides used by the United States military in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, the best-known and mostly widely used being Agent Orange.

Etymology

From the colours assigned to them as code names.

Inflected Forms

rainbow herbicides (plural)

Questions

What does rainbow herbicide mean?
Any of a group of herbicides used by the United States military in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, the best-known and mostly widely used being Agent Orange.
Where does rainbow herbicide come from?
From the colours assigned to them as code names.

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