biocide

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English

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“KONTRA Wühlmaustöter”, an old brand of phosphide rat poison manufactured by the company Georg Vogger of Geisenfeld, Upper Bavaria, Germany

Etymology

From bio- +‎ -cide.

Pronunciation

Noun

biocide (countable and uncountable, plural biocides)

  1. 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:
      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.

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed, probably from English biocide.

Pronunciation

Noun

biocide n (plural biocides or biociden)

  1. biocide

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French

Pronunciation

Adjective

biocide (plural biocides)

  1. biocidal

Noun

biocide m (plural biocides)

  1. biocide

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Italian

Adjective

biocide

  1. feminine plural of biocida