glyphosate

[ glahy-fos-eyt ]

noun

, Chemistry.

1. a compound, C 3 H 8 NO 5 P, used to kill a wide range of weeds.

Example Sentences

After being pressured by lawsuits and activists that included As You Sow, Kellogg’s made a plan in 2020 to phase out glyphosate by 2025.

From Time

Like most companies, it used wheat and oat crops that had been treated with the herbicide glyphosate, a known carcinogen.

From Time

During the mid-nineties, the introduction of crops genetically engineered to withstand the herbicide glyphosate led to the chemical’s usage ramping up in agricultural areas across the Midwest, destroying large amounts of milkweed in the process.

From Popular-Science

Reproducing standard forestry practices, she and her sister, Robyn, doused birch and alder “weeds” with toxic 2,4-D and glyphosate.

From Washington Post

When slathered in a stress-inducing chemical, the plants with glyphosate resistance produced a lot less nectar than wild plants.

From Science News