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fungicide

[fuhn-juh-sahyd, fuhng-guh-] / ˈfʌn dʒəˌsaɪd, ˈfʌŋ gə- /


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The cost for treating oak wilt, or any tree disease that requires a fungicide injection, depends on the tree’s diameter at breast height, or DBH.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

In the study, published in the journal Environmental Epigenetics, an initial generation of pregnant rats was exposed to a common fungicide, then their progeny to jet fuel and the following generation to DDT.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2024

So far early results have revealed that women with evidence of fungicide exposure during pregnancy had infants with more respiratory infections and impaired neurodevelopment at age one.

From Scientific American • Sep. 22, 2023

A weekly application of a copper-based fungicide can be helpful in preventing reappearance.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 21, 2023

Or can we use a nonspecific fungicide without also killing the fungi that inhabit the roots of many trees in a beneficial association that aids the tree in extracting nutrients from the soil?

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson




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