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biocides

biocides is the plural of biocide.

Meaning of biocide

Noun

biocide (countable and uncountable, plural biocides)

  1. 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...

Questions about biocides

What is biocides the plural of?
Biocides is the plural of biocide.

Words near biocides in the dictionary

  1. biochronometry
  2. biochronostratigraphic
  3. biochrons
  4. biocidal
  5. biocide
  6. biocides
  7. biocircuit
  8. biocircuits
  9. biocitizenship
  10. biocitizenships
  11. bioclast

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