noun
Meaning 1
An agent used to defoliate plants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Agent Orange is a defoliant.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
defoliant
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /diːˈfəʊlɪənt/
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CMU ARPABET: D IH0 F OW1 L IY0 AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
a chemical that is sprayed on plants and causes their leaves to fall off
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: compound, chemical compound
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English defoliate Latin -ns Latin -āns Old French -antbor. Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Proto-West Germanic *-andī Old English -ende Middle English -ant English -ant English defoliant From defoliate + -ant.
Across languages
Translations
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: defoliant — agent used to defoliate plants
- French: défoliant — agent used to defoliate plants
- German: Entlaubungsmittel — agent used to defoliate plants
- Italian: defoliante — agent used to defoliate plants
- Korean: 고엽제 (goyeopje) — agent used to defoliate plants
- Polish: defoliant — agent used to defoliate plants
- Spanish: defoliante — agent used to defoliate plants
- Ukrainian: дефоліант (defoliant) — agent used to defoliate plants