biocide
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbaɪəʊsaɪd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbaɪoʊsaɪd/
- Hyphenation: bio‧cide
Noun edit
biocide (countable and uncountable, plural biocides)
- 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.
- 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:
Related terms edit
Translations edit
any substance that can destroy living organisms
See also edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed, probably from English biocide.
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
biocide n (plural biocides or biociden)
Further reading edit
- biocide on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
biocide (plural biocides)
Noun edit
biocide m (plural biocides)
Further reading edit
- “biocide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Adjective edit
biocide