postemergence

Adjective

Meaning

postemergence (not comparable)

(of herbicide use) After the emergence of the plants being targeted.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Leaf-feeding insects such as corn borer, fall armyworm and cutworm can be controlled with a postemergence spray of a labeled pyrethroid insecticide. Source: Internet

Bradley applied Liberty and Roundup postemergence in the XtendFlex beans according to the label recommendations. Source: Internet

The operator took them out with a postemergence application, but not before they had time to impact soybeans growing within those random patches. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

postembryonal postembryonic postembryonically postemergency postemigration postempiricism