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weed killer

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weed killer: see herbicide herbicide (hr`bəsīd'), chemical compound that kills plants or inhibits their normal growth.
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If Robina hadn't waited those extra seconds for her son to turn and blow her a kiss, she never would have seen the school gardener -- dressed in protective white coveralls for handling hazardous material -- also turn and accidentally spray weed killer in the direction of Nick and a few other kids walking into school.
A weed killer is dumped into the swimming pool, causing a young athlete's skin to ripple and turn a painful red, yellow, and blue; the bolts from a scaffold are loosened and two workers plummet to their death; and the site manager has disappeared without a trace.
and her colleagues exposed lab-kept mussels to the weed killer atrazine or to estrogen for a week.
 
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