defoliant

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Agent Orange is a defoliant that was used during the Vietnam War era and known to cause cancer and other serious illnesses.
橙劑是一種脫葉劑，曾在越戰(zhàn)期間使用，已知會(huì)致癌和其他嚴(yán)重疾病。
South Korean and U.S. officials also say there is no evidence, at this stage, that the dioxin came from the defoliant Agent Orange.
韓國(guó)和美國(guó)官員還表示，目前沒有証據(jù)顯示二惡英來(lái)自脫葉劑“桔劑”。
The U.S. Army says it is looking into a report that drums of the Vietnam War-era toxic defoliant Agent Orange were buried at an American military facility in South Korea 33 years ago.A
美國(guó)陸軍表示，正在調(diào)查一則關(guān)於一些越南戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)時(shí)期使用的有毒落葉劑“橙劑”33年前被埋在韓國(guó)的一処美軍設(shè)施地下的報(bào)導(dǎo)。

Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange, a poisonous defoliant used by America in the war, are still seeking compensation.
ECONOMIST: Vietnam and America
You can't put defoliant on the poppies or you've already made new insurgents because they have nothing else to grow.
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Mr Parra thinks this may reflect Dow's memory of the way the American government left it to pick up the legal fallout from the use of the notorious Agent Orange defoliant during the Vietnam war.
ECONOMIST: Colombia

A defoliant is a chemical used on trees and plants to make all their leaves fall off. Defoliants are especially used in war to remove protection from an enemy.