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biological warfare

biological warfare noun: the use of any harmful organism (such as a bacterium or virus) as a weapon of war.

Noun

biological warfare (uncountable)

  1. 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...1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 29

biological warfare meaning in Kannada

biological warfare in Kannada

ಜೀವಾಣುಯುದ್ಧ, ಕ್ರಿಮಿ ಯುದ್ಧ, ಜೈವಿಕ ಸಮರ

Questions about biological warfare

What does biological warfare mean?
Biological warfare means the use of any harmful organism (such as a bacterium or virus) as a weapon of war.
What is biological warfare in Kannada?
Biological warfare in Kannada is ಜೀವಾಣುಯುದ್ಧ, ಕ್ರಿಮಿ ಯುದ್ಧ, ಜೈವಿಕ ಸಮರ. See Biological warfare meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is biological warfare?
Biological warfare is a noun.

Words near biological warfare in the dictionary

  1. biological racism
  2. biological sex
  3. biological sexes
  4. biological time
  5. biological times
  6. biological warfare
  7. biological weapon
  8. biological weapons
  9. biologicality
  10. biologically
  11. biologicalness

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