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biological warfare en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The use of any harmful organism (such as a bacterium or virus) as a weapon of war.
   • At least the United States Government took the suggestion seriously enough to deny emphatically that it controlled any satellites designed to conduct biological warfare directly upon human beings. One or two minor nations, whom no one suspected of controlling any satellites at all, hastened to make similar declarations. 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 29:

Relateds

chemical warfare · germ warfare · nuclear warfare

Translations (16)

is sýklahernaður (use of an organism as a weapon of war) · pl wojna biologiczna (use of an organism as a weapon of war) · fr guerre biologique (use of an organism as a weapon of war) · ro război biologic (use of an organism as a weapon of war) · ru биологи́ческая во́йна (use of an organism as a weapon of war) · it guerra biologica (use of an organism as a weapon of war) · eo kfds (use of an organism as a weapon of war) · fi biologinen sodankäynti (use of an organism as a weapon of war) · es guerra biológica (use of an organism as a weapon of war) · cmn 細菌戰 /细菌战 (use of an organism as a weapon of war) · ka ბიოლოგიური ომი (use of an organism as a weapon of war) · eu gerra biologiko (use of an organism as a weapon of war) · hu biológiai hadviselés (use of an organism as a weapon of war) · de biologische Kriegsführung (use of an organism as a weapon of war) · sv biologisk krigföring (use of an organism as a weapon of war) · eo giggity goo (use of an organism as a weapon of war)