biocide
Syllables: bio·cideUK/ˈbaɪəʊsaɪd//ˈbaɪoʊsaɪd/
biocide noun: any action or substance that can destroy living organisms.
Noun
biocide (countable and uncountable, plural biocides)
- 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...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...
biocide meaning in Tamil
biocide in Tamil
- உயிர்க்கொல்லி
Forms of biocide
| plural | biocides |
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Origin of biocide
From bio- + -cide.
Questions about biocide
- What does biocide mean?
- Biocide means any action or substance that can destroy living organisms.
- What is biocide in Tamil?
- Biocide in Tamil is உயிர்க்கொல்லி. See Biocide meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is biocide?
- Biocide is a noun.
- How do you pronounce biocide?
- Biocide is pronounced /ˈbaɪəʊsaɪd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of biocide?
- The plural of biocide is biocides.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: biocide (page history and authors); biocide (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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