Agent Orange Definition

noun
A highly toxic herbicide sprayed as a defoliant in chemical warfare.
Webster's New World
A herbicide containing trace amounts of the toxic contaminant dioxin, used in the Vietnam War to defoliate areas of forest.
American Heritage Medicine
pronoun

A herbicide and defoliant used by US forces in Vietnam.

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Origin of Agent Orange

  • From the orange identifying strip on drums in which it was stored

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Agent Orange Sentence Examples

  • When these chemicals combine they turn into dioxin, the dangerous compound found in Agent Orange.

  • Limbless victims of Agent Orange or mine explosions re-created what may have been a trauma very similar to the circumstances of their own injury.

  • He claims to have overcome Peripheral Neuropathy which was the result of being exposed to Agent Orange while in Vietnam.

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