AGENT ORANGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Agent Orange mean? 

• 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.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGENT ORANGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A herbicide used in the Vietnam War to defoliate forest areas

Classified under:

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)

 Context examples 

The toxicity of Agent Orange is due to by-products from metabolic processes upon intake.

(Agent Orange, NCI Thesaurus)

Agent Orange is a mixture of two chemicals, 2,4, dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and 2,4,5 trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4,5-T).

(Agent Orange, NCI Thesaurus)