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pharming

pharming noun: the use of genetic engineering to alter an animal or plant in order to make it produce a pharmaceutical or similar product.

Noun (1)

pharming (uncountable)

  1. The use of genetic engineering to alter an animal or plant in order to make it produce a pharmaceutical or similar product

Noun (2)

pharming (uncountable)

  1. The redirection of traffic for one website to another, with intent to deceive.
    • Our prototype implements a basic pharming attack to selectively misresolve the client domain name requests.2006, Markus Jakobsson, Steven Myers, Phishing and Countermeasures, page 128

Synonyms of pharming

Origin of pharming

from pharmaceutical + farming

From farming, by analogy with earlier phishing.

Questions about pharming

What does pharming mean?
Pharming means the use of genetic engineering to alter an animal or plant in order to make it produce a pharmaceutical or similar product.
What part of speech is pharming?
Pharming is a noun.

Words near pharming in the dictionary

  1. pharmed
  2. pharmer
  3. pharmers
  4. pharmic
  5. pharmics
  6. pharming
  7. pharmocogeneticists
  8. pharmodynamic
  9. pharmorubicin
  10. Pharmouthi
  11. pharms

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