Arboricide

Synonyms for "arboricide" (1 found)

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Polish

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  • arborycyd noun (herbicide intended to kill trees)

Portuguese

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  • arboricida noun (herbicide intended to kill trees)

Spanish

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  • arboricida noun (herbicide intended to kill trees)
  • arboricidio noun (killing of a tree)

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Over a large area, trees of no commercial value such as figs, especially the so-called ‘strangling’ (epiphytic) varieties, together with Cynometra, Celtis spp. and Lasiodiscus were treated with a potent arboricide containing 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D dissolved in diesel oil.

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President Hayes spoke of the gigantic trees which he had seen in California, one of which was so large that he and seven other persons rode into the hollow of its trunk. He had heard of the crime of arboricide, and agreed with Mr. Muzzey that it deserves punishment.

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Irresolutely she threaded her way among the motley crowd on the hot, unshaded platform of the station, pausing, because it seemed to bar her way, before the section of Pueblo’s king of cottonwoods, which advertising ingenuity has erected there,—fit monument, Donald had once said, for a city’s crime of arboricide.

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The salaried tree killer for the state of Nebraska has been at work about the Soldiers’ Home at Milford. He is guilty of arboricide in the first degree.

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