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.

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Meanings

nounyellow rain (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA 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.
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