The spraying of powdered insecticide or fertilizer on crops, especially from the air.
作物喷粉（尤指从空中在作物上喷粉末状杀虫剂或肥料）
Example sentencesExamples
For your birthday, I bought you a crop dusting plane.
He started a crop dusting and spraying business which became quite successful.
A manual on crop dusting was found in a suspected terrorist hideout - raising the spectre that they were planning to use chemical or biological weapons.
The five ton aircraft normally carries about two tons of crop dusting chemicals.
As the result of this being used for crop dusting and cloud seeding, the corrosive effects of the chemicals did considerable damage to the structure.
The United States imposes a one-day ban on crop dusting planes over concerns about a possible chemical weapon attack.
Did you notice something strange about it when they were coming by every weekend to ask about crop dusting?
He runs a crop dusting business in Florida and he was suspicious about some people who wanted to learn about flying those planes.
According to Time magazine, this was all in response to the FBI finding instructional material on crop dusting in the apartment of one of the attackers.
‘In crop dusting, the farmers would buy and supply the actual chemicals,’ he says.
The profession of crop dusting often requires a pilot to be fairly mobile and migrate to where the work is.
Some 40 years ago lethal chemicals were dropped on the Wiltshire countryside by crop dusting planes and tested on volunteer soldiers who had no idea of the risks.
Derivatives
crop duster
noun
His father had taught him to fly, and by the age of 16, he could fly his father's crop duster by himself.
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All the crop duster does is act as an applicator of the chemicals.
A converted crop duster passes low over the gathering aviation crowd, spraying a fine mist of cooling water.
A crop duster sweeps low over a field, aiding farmers in a battle against late season insects.
By the time he was 18, in 1973, he was working as a crop duster.
Definition of crop dusting in US English:
crop dusting
nounˈkräp ˌdəstiNGˈkrɑp ˌdəstɪŋ
The spraying of powdered or liquid insecticide or fertilizer on crops, especially from the air.
作物喷粉（尤指从空中在作物上喷粉末状杀虫剂或肥料）
Example sentencesExamples
According to Time magazine, this was all in response to the FBI finding instructional material on crop dusting in the apartment of one of the attackers.
The five ton aircraft normally carries about two tons of crop dusting chemicals.
The profession of crop dusting often requires a pilot to be fairly mobile and migrate to where the work is.
The United States imposes a one-day ban on crop dusting planes over concerns about a possible chemical weapon attack.
Some 40 years ago lethal chemicals were dropped on the Wiltshire countryside by crop dusting planes and tested on volunteer soldiers who had no idea of the risks.
A manual on crop dusting was found in a suspected terrorist hideout - raising the spectre that they were planning to use chemical or biological weapons.
As the result of this being used for crop dusting and cloud seeding, the corrosive effects of the chemicals did considerable damage to the structure.
For your birthday, I bought you a crop dusting plane.
Did you notice something strange about it when they were coming by every weekend to ask about crop dusting?
He started a crop dusting and spraying business which became quite successful.
He runs a crop dusting business in Florida and he was suspicious about some people who wanted to learn about flying those planes.
‘In crop dusting, the farmers would buy and supply the actual chemicals,’ he says.