Garden Dictionary Word: systemic

systemic

Anything introduced into the growth system of a plant and traveling throughout the system. Some types of systemics are used to protect plants, as a systemic insecticide. Other systemics are used as herbicides to kill plants deemed as noxious weeds.

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