paraquat
noun
paraquat is a noun meaning “A poisonous yellow herbicide derived from bipyridine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-R-A-Q-U-A-T, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of paraquat is paraquats.
What does paraquat mean?
noun
- 1
A poisonous yellow herbicide derived from bipyridine
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of paraquat
- paraquats plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is paraquat?
Paraquat appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does paraquat come from?
From a trademark.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).