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yellow rain

yellow rain noun: a sticky yellow liquid alleged to have been dropped as a chemical weapon on the Hmong peoples by Laos and North Vietnam beginning in 1975, sometimes conjectured to be a mycotoxin.

Noun

yellow rain (uncountable)

  1. A sticky yellow liquid alleged to have been dropped as a chemical weapon on the Hmong peoples by Laos and North Vietnam beginning in 1975, sometimes conjectured to be a mycotoxin.

Questions about yellow rain

What does yellow rain mean?
Yellow rain means a sticky yellow liquid alleged to have been dropped as a chemical weapon on the Hmong peoples by Laos and North Vietnam beginning in 1975, sometimes conjectured to be a mycotoxin.
What part of speech is yellow rain?
Yellow rain is a noun.

Words near yellow rain in the dictionary

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  10. yellow ribbon
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