Herbicide
noun
A substance that is used to destroy or slow the growth of plants, especially weeds.
The farmer used a herbicide to control the weeds in his field.
Often appears as...
- apply herbicide
- herbicide resistance
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A substance that is used to destroy or slow the growth of plants, especially weeds.
The farmer used a herbicide to control the weeds in his field.
Often appears as...
- apply herbicide
- herbicide resistance
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Usage Specificity
Herbicide refers specifically to plant-killing substances, not to be confused with pesticides which target a variety of pests.
While planting my garden, I avoided using herbicides to preserve beneficial plants.
Pro Tip 2/3Environmental Context
Awareness of environmental impact is important; herbicides can affect more than just weeds.
Environmentalists argue that overusing herbicides leads to water pollution.
Pro Tip 3/3Selective vs. Total
Some herbicides target specific plants, while others kill all vegetation; context dictates the choice.
The vineyard used a selective herbicide to protect the grapevines while eliminating weeds.
Pro Tip 1/3Usage Specificity
Herbicide refers specifically to plant-killing substances, not to be confused with pesticides which target a variety of pests.
While planting my garden, I avoided using herbicides to preserve beneficial plants.
Pro Tip 2/3Environmental Context
Awareness of environmental impact is important; herbicides can affect more than just weeds.
Environmentalists argue that overusing herbicides leads to water pollution.
Pro Tip 3/3Selective vs. Total
Some herbicides target specific plants, while others kill all vegetation; context dictates the choice.
The vineyard used a selective herbicide to protect the grapevines while eliminating weeds.
Pro Tip 1/3Usage Specificity
Herbicide refers specifically to plant-killing substances, not to be confused with pesticides which target a variety of pests.
While planting my garden, I avoided using herbicides to preserve beneficial plants.
Pro Tip 2/3Environmental Context
Awareness of environmental impact is important; herbicides can affect more than just weeds.
Environmentalists argue that overusing herbicides leads to water pollution.
Pro Tip 3/3Selective vs. Total
Some herbicides target specific plants, while others kill all vegetation; context dictates the choice.
The vineyard used a selective herbicide to protect the grapevines while eliminating weeds.
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How to Create Your Own...
butterflies and everything else that shares those habitats a lot of times people aren't even comfortable with planting gardens so we wanted to show people how to do a planting how to properly secure the roots so that it's touching soil we can't mow everything into oblivion we can't herbicide everything into a
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What's wrong with our...
pesticides herbicides or genetically modified seeds and so for that he's called crazy by the system I want you to know that we can all make a difference by making different choices by buying our food directly from local farmers or neighbors we know in real life some people say organic or local food is
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Birke Baehr: What's...
doesn't use any pesticides, herbicides, or genetically modified seeds. And so for that, he's called crazy by the system. I want you to know that we can all make a difference by making different choices, by buying our food directly from local farmers, or our neighbors who we know in real life.
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Why do your jeans wear...
not to mention various herbicides and pesticides, which can contaminate groundwater. The cotton is harvested by hand or industrial machines and transported to textile factories where it’s spun into yarn. At this point, it’s typically combined with plastic fibers like spandex
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Grow your food in the...
not plant in the air cannot grow so no need to spray herbicide to key the grass with me the environment is safer for you and me you don't have to use insecticides because now you have a cleaner environment for us and for the future generation aeroponics ensure that
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Marla Spivak: Why bees...
which are natural fertilizers that fix nitrogen in the soil, and instead we started using synthetic fertilizers. Clover and alfalfa are highly nutritious food plants for bees. And after World War II, we started using herbicides to kill off the weeds in our farms.
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The Unexpected,...
has released this year an important development, which is that these seeds can be consumed by humans as marine rice. And this is a wonderful crop, one that does not require arable land, fresh water, neither fertilizers nor herbicides or pesticides.
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How you can help save...
Insect life is at the very foundation of our life-support systems. We can't lose these insects. Biodiversity all over the globe is in a vast decline. Habitat loss, pesticides, herbicides and impacts of climate change.
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Climate change is...
to deliver the plants only and exactly what they need, with zero herbicides and radical efficiency. Here again, we see innovators borrowing from, and perhaps even elevating the wisdom of natural ecosystems.
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Care About the Ocean?...
stuff I'm mistaking the bits of plastic food chemicals pesticides and herbicides runoff from land and adhere to floating marine debris increasing toxicity to marine life and ultimately to humans so
Video examples
How to Create Your Own...
butterflies and everything else that shares those habitats a lot of times people aren't even comfortable with planting gardens so we wanted to show people how to do a planting how to properly secure the roots so that it's touching soil we can't mow everything into oblivion we can't herbicide everything into a
Video examples
What's wrong with our...
pesticides herbicides or genetically modified seeds and so for that he's called crazy by the system I want you to know that we can all make a difference by making different choices by buying our food directly from local farmers or neighbors we know in real life some people say organic or local food is
Video examples
Birke Baehr: What's...
doesn't use any pesticides, herbicides, or genetically modified seeds. And so for that, he's called crazy by the system. I want you to know that we can all make a difference by making different choices, by buying our food directly from local farmers, or our neighbors who we know in real life.
Video examples
Why do your jeans wear...
not to mention various herbicides and pesticides, which can contaminate groundwater. The cotton is harvested by hand or industrial machines and transported to textile factories where it’s spun into yarn. At this point, it’s typically combined with plastic fibers like spandex
Video examples
Grow your food in the...
not plant in the air cannot grow so no need to spray herbicide to key the grass with me the environment is safer for you and me you don't have to use insecticides because now you have a cleaner environment for us and for the future generation aeroponics ensure that
Video examples
Marla Spivak: Why bees...
which are natural fertilizers that fix nitrogen in the soil, and instead we started using synthetic fertilizers. Clover and alfalfa are highly nutritious food plants for bees. And after World War II, we started using herbicides to kill off the weeds in our farms.
Video examples
The Unexpected,...
has released this year an important development, which is that these seeds can be consumed by humans as marine rice. And this is a wonderful crop, one that does not require arable land, fresh water, neither fertilizers nor herbicides or pesticides.
Video examples
How you can help save...
Insect life is at the very foundation of our life-support systems. We can't lose these insects. Biodiversity all over the globe is in a vast decline. Habitat loss, pesticides, herbicides and impacts of climate change.
Video examples
Climate change is...
to deliver the plants only and exactly what they need, with zero herbicides and radical efficiency. Here again, we see innovators borrowing from, and perhaps even elevating the wisdom of natural ecosystems.
Video examples
Care About the Ocean?...
stuff I'm mistaking the bits of plastic food chemicals pesticides and herbicides runoff from land and adhere to floating marine debris increasing toxicity to marine life and ultimately to humans so
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Robert M. Parker, Jr.
American Critic
The best Chateauneuf-du-Papes are among the most natural expressions of grapes, place and vintage. Chateauneuf-du-Pape vineyards are farmed organically or biodynamically, and the region's abundant sunshine and frequent wind (called 'le mistral') practically preclude the need for treating the fields with herbicides or pesticides.
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Joel Salatin
American Author
God doesn't just miraculously and physically intervene in the whole process, so if I just go and drop a bunch of chemicals and herbicides that leach into the groundwater, I can pray all day to keep my child healthy, but if the herbicides gone into the groundwater come up my well, my child's going to drink that water.
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Frances Arnold
American Scientist
Nature is solving all sorts of problems that we throw at her - how to degrade plastic bottles, how to degrade pesticides and herbicides and antibiotics. She creates new enzymes in response to that all the time, in real time.
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Jeremy Rifkin
American Economist
If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can spray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn because it's producing a gene that makes it tolerant of the herbicide.
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David R. Brower
American Environmentalist
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.
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Jeremy Rifkin
American Economist
I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this and have said the opposite, that they have to use more herbicides, not less. The same holds true with BT.
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Alice Waters
American Chef
I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist.
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Charles Duhigg
American Journalist
Atrazine - a herbicide often used on corn fields, golf courses and even lawns - has become one of the most common contaminants in American drinking water.
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Paul Craig Roberts
American Economist
On one hand, our food is polluted with herbicides and on the other hand by antibiotics. And then we have hormones and pesticides.
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Nina Fedoroff
American Scientist
Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.
Quote examples
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
American Critic
The best Chateauneuf-du-Papes are among the most natural expressions of grapes, place and vintage. Chateauneuf-du-Pape vineyards are farmed organically or biodynamically, and the region's abundant sunshine and frequent wind (called 'le mistral') practically preclude the need for treating the fields with herbicides or pesticides.
Quote examples
Joel Salatin
American Author
God doesn't just miraculously and physically intervene in the whole process, so if I just go and drop a bunch of chemicals and herbicides that leach into the groundwater, I can pray all day to keep my child healthy, but if the herbicides gone into the groundwater come up my well, my child's going to drink that water.
Quote examples
Frances Arnold
American Scientist
Nature is solving all sorts of problems that we throw at her - how to degrade plastic bottles, how to degrade pesticides and herbicides and antibiotics. She creates new enzymes in response to that all the time, in real time.
Quote examples
Jeremy Rifkin
American Economist
If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can spray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn because it's producing a gene that makes it tolerant of the herbicide.
Quote examples
David R. Brower
American Environmentalist
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.
Quote examples
Jeremy Rifkin
American Economist
I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this and have said the opposite, that they have to use more herbicides, not less. The same holds true with BT.
Quote examples
Alice Waters
American Chef
I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist.
Quote examples
Charles Duhigg
American Journalist
Atrazine - a herbicide often used on corn fields, golf courses and even lawns - has become one of the most common contaminants in American drinking water.
Quote examples
Paul Craig Roberts
American Economist
On one hand, our food is polluted with herbicides and on the other hand by antibiotics. And then we have hormones and pesticides.
Quote examples
Nina Fedoroff
American Scientist
Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.
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