fenuron

[ fen-yuh-ron ]

nounChemistry.
  1. a white crystalline compound, C9H12N2O, used as an herbicide.

Origin of fenuron

1
First recorded in 1945–50; phen(yl) + ur(ea) + -on(e)

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