biocide

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
14
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈbaɪəʊsaɪd/
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/ˈbaɪəʊsaɪd/ · /ˈbaɪoʊsaɪd/

Definition of biocide

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Any action or substance that can destroy living organisms.
    “[T]here is the inability of the Christian world to respond in any effective way to the destruction of the planet. […] There is this terrible lack of concern for biocide or geocide. We have no moral principles to deal with them. […] Somehow, when I was quite young, I saw the beginning of biocide and geocide.”

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Etymology

From bio- + -cide.

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