rainbow herbicide

English

Etymology

From the colours assigned to them as code names.

Noun

rainbow herbicide (plural rainbow herbicides)

  1. Any of a group of herbicides used by the United States military in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, the best-known and mostly widely used being Agent Orange.
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