单词 | methoxone |
释义 | Methoxonen. Agriculture. The herbicide MCPA, (4-chloro-2-methylphenoxy)acetic acid.A proprietary name in the United Kingdom. ΚΠ 1945 Times 25 May 8/7 A revolutionary weed-killer for agriculture which is known as ‘Methoxone’. 1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. xxii. plate 87 (caption) A Dock plant in a crop one week after treatment with a hormone weed-killer (methoxone). 1961 Times 30 May (I.C.I. Suppl.) p. vi/4 The development of Methoxone and other selective weedkillers. 1987 Sunday Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 22 Mar. We have had 2-4D and its close chemical relative, MCPA (known by its trade name, Methoxone) as well as 2-4-5T, now withdrawn from the garden supplies market. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1945 |
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