HERBICIDES

"HERBICIDES" is a plural of: herbicide.

Specialty Definition: HERBICIDES

Domain	Definition
Health	Pesticides used to destroy unwanted vegetation, especially various types of weeds, grasses, and woody plants. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: HERBICIDES

Synonym: Weed killers. (additional references)

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Crosswords: HERBICIDES

English words defined with "HERBICIDES": arsenic, As, atomic number 33 ♦ dioxin. (references)

Specialty definitions using "HERBICIDES": caretaker, grounds, Chlorophenoxy, co-solvent, coupling agent ♦ Dioxins ♦ EXTERMINATOR HELPER ♦ FARMWORKER, DIVERSIFIED CROPS I, FOREST WORKER ♦ GROUNDSKEEPER, INDUSTRIAL-COMMERCIAL ♦ Herbicides, Carbamate, Herbicides, Triazine, Herbicides, Urea ♦ pest control worker helper, pest-control worker ♦ soil sterilisation, soil sterilization, SPRAYER, HAND, SUPERVISOR II. (references)

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Commercial Usage: HERBICIDES

Domain	Title
References	The World Market for Herbicides, Weed Killers, Antisprouting Products, and Plant-Growth Regulators for Retail Sale: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	A Bitter Fog: Herbicides and Human Rights (reference) Herbicides and Plant Metabolism (Seminar Series Society for Experimental Biology 38) (reference) Metabolic Pathways of Agrochemicals: Herbicides and Plant Growth Regulators (reference) Microbes and Microbial Products As Herbicides (Acs Symposium Series, No 439) (reference) Pesticides and Herbicides Manufacturing in Taiwan [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Ca Selects: Herbicides (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Photo Album: HERBICIDES

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Using Global Position System equipment on farm for precision application of fertilizer, pesticides and herbicides. Northern Louisiana. Credit: Bob Nichols.		African American farmer, Michael Holmes discusses herbicides for his watermellon crop with County Agent Roger Jones in Perry County, MS. Credit: USDA.
	Contractor applying herbicides to rush Skeletonweed at Sand Dunes Wilderness in Washington. Credit: Jerry Asher.
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Non-Fiction Usage: HERBICIDES

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Over the next few years, demand for herbicides is expected to grow by 3.4 million hectares annually. (references)
		The output of insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides account for 71.3%, 15.8% and 9.76% of total pesticides output, respectively. (references)
		Diffuse pollution due to fertilizer application as well as to that of pesticides and herbicides on the agricultural land is also a major concern. (references)
Economic History	China	The proportion of herbicides and fungicides in the varieties of pesticides has increased. (references)
	Costa Rica	The most promising sub-sectors in agricultural chemicals for U.S. exports are fertilizers, herbicides and fungicides. (references)
	Nicaragua	The most significant imports are urea 46 percent nitrogen (fertilizer), fungicides, herbicides, and compound formula fertilizers. (references)
Political Economy	COSTA RICA	The Ministry of Health must approve imports of pharmaceuticals, veterinary drugs, herbicides and pesticides, and the same items must be legally available in the exporting country. (references)
Trade	Bulgaria	The goods covered by this import preference are agricultural insecticides and herbicides. (references)
	Bulgaria	During 2001, permits are required for export of gold, silver, platinum, opiates, nuclear materials, explosives, arms, endangered species of animals and plants, and some herbicides. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: HERBICIDES

"HERBICIDES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 96.97% of the time. "HERBICIDES" is used about 66 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	96.97%	64	42,009
Lexical Verb (-s form)	3.03%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	66	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: HERBICIDES

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "HERBICIDES": pest-herbicides.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HERBICIDES

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
herbicides	227	grass herbicides	3
aquatic herbicides	12	care fertilizer herbicides lawn	3
herbicides manufacturer	10	herbicides pond	2
herbicides industrie	7	herbicides pumpkin	2
herbicides organic	7	dupont herbicides	2
natural herbicides	6	farm herbicides	2
pesticide herbicides	6	herbicides lawn	2
herbicides type	6	herbicides selective	2
herbicides tree	4	herbicides killing tree	2
corn herbicides	4	alfalfa herbicides	2
agricultural herbicides	4	forestry herbicides	2
herbicides wholesale	3	crossbow herbicides	2
herbicides sprayers	3	herbicides ivy poison	2
corn herbicides sweet	3	growing herbicides strawberry	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "HERBICIDES"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "HERBICIDES" (pronounced er"busī'dz or her"busī'dz)
5	-u s ī' d z	fratricides, fungicides, glucosides, homicides, insecticides, pesticides, suicides.
4	-s ī' d z	downsides, hillsides, ironsides, mountainsides, oxides, roadsides, Silversides.
3	-ī' d z	azides, bromides, fluorides, iodides, landslides, overrides, peptides, polysaccharides, tellurides, triglycerides.
5	-u s ī' d z	fratricides, fungicides, glucosides, homicides, insecticides, pesticides, suicides.
4	-s ī' d z	downsides, hillsides, ironsides, mountainsides, oxides, roadsides, Silversides.
3	-ī' d z	azides, bromides, fluorides, iodides, landslides, overrides, peptides, polysaccharides, tellurides, triglycerides.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: HERBICIDES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-e-h-i-i-r-s"
	-1 letter: herbicide.
	-2 letters: describe.
	-3 letters: birched, birches, birdies, cheders, chiders, decries, dehisce, deicers, derbies, dishier, herdics, scribed.
	-4 letters: beside, biders, birdie, bredes, breech, breeds, brides, cebids, ceders, cerise, cheder, cheers, chider, chides, ciders, creeds, creesh, debris, deicer, deices, desire, dicers, dicier, dreich, eiders, heders, heired, herbed, herdic, hiders, ibices, irides, irised, rebecs, rebids, reside, riches.
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