"crop-dusting" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: crop-dustings [plural], cropdusting [alternative], crop dusting [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} crop-dusting (usually uncountable, plural crop-dustings)
  1. The application of fertilizers, pesticides, and fungicides onto crops from an aircraft Wikidata QID: Q396053 Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (application of chemicals onto crops from an aircraft): épandage aérien [masculine] (French), pulvérisation aérienne [feminine] (French), agrolotnictwo [neuter] (Polish), aplicación aérea de plaguicidas [feminine] (Spanish), fumigación de cultivos [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-crop-dusting-en-noun-en:Q396053 Disambiguation of 'application of chemicals onto crops from an aircraft': 96 4
  2. (informal, humorous) The act of farting in public while passing by people. Tags: humorous, informal, uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-crop-dusting-en-noun-en:farting_near_crowds Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with French translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Bodily functions Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 26 47 27 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 14 68 17 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 25 47 27 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 25 48 27 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 18 62 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 21 55 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 19 59 22 Disambiguation of Bodily functions: 25 50 25
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: cropduster, crop-duster, crop duster

Verb

Forms: cropdusting [alternative], crop dusting [alternative]
Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} crop-dusting
  1. present participle and gerund of crop-dust Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: crop-dust
    Sense id: en-crop-dusting-en-verb-f0XhJw5s

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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