Seveso

[suh-vey-soh; Italian se-ve-saw]

noun

an industrial town in N Italy, near Milan: 1976 dioxin release.

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British Dictionary definitions for seveso

Seveso

noun

a town in N Italy, near Milan: evacuated in 1976 after contamination by a poisonous cloud of dioxin gas released from a factory

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