biocide

From bio- +‎ -cide.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪəʊsaɪd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪoʊsaɪd/

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• Hyphenation: bio‧cide

biocide (countable and uncountable, plural biocides)

1. Any action or substance that can destroy living organisms.
   • 1991, Thomas Berry; Thomas Clarke; Stephen Dunn and Anne Lonergan, editors, Befriending the Earth: A Theology of Reconciliation between Humans and the Earth, Mystic, Conn.: Twenty-Third Publications, ISBN 978-0-89622-471-1; quoted in Cristina Vanin, “Attaining Harmony with the Earth”, in John C. Haughey, editor, In Search of the Whole: Twelve Essays on Faith and Academic Life, Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-58901-781-8, page 184:

     [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.

• biocidal

Borrowed, probably from English biocide.

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biocide n (plural biocides or biociden)

1. biocide

• biocide on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

• IPA^(key): /bjɔ.sid/

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• Homophone: biocides

biocide (plural biocides)

1. biocidal

biocide m (plural biocides)

1. biocide

• “biocide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

biocide

1. feminine plural of biocida