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simazine

[ sahy-muh-zeen ]

noun

, Chemistry.
  1. a colorless crystalline selective herbicide, C 7 H 1 2 ClN 5 , used for season-long weed control in corn and other crops.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of simazine1

1955–60; sim-, respelling of sym(metrical) + (tri)azine

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