agent orange

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   a herbicide used in the Vietnam War to defoliate forest areas

   Broaderherbicide

Questions about agent orange

What does agent orange mean?

agent orange means "a herbicide used in the Vietnam War to defoliate forest areas".

Is agent orange a common word?

agent orange is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.