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

At the end of July, Bayer said it achieved a major settlement that reduced the number of unresolved glyphosate claims significantly.

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He noted there had been a "moderate" increase in glyphosate case filings after the recent settlement announcement, which added to costs, but the company was nevertheless confident in its strategy.

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Conventional agriculture, meanwhile, is wholly dependent on preemptive pesticide use, dousing entire fields of crops in herbicides like glyphosate and accelerating the evolution of superweeds in the process.

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Suggesting that organic’s limited use of chemicals is equivalent to that of conventional growers — who apply 280 million pounds of glyphosate alone on nearly 300 million acres of U.S. cropland annually — is a deliberate distortion of the facts.

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Glyphosate is one of the most pervasive herbicides used in the U.S. and worldwide.

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