单词 | biological warfare |
释义 | > as lemmasbiological warfare biological warfare n. warfare involving the use of biological weapons. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > chemical or germ warfare chemical warfare1912 germ warfare1919 bacteriological warfare1924 biological warfare1933 biowar1950 biowarfare1951 1933 Times 6 Sept. 9/2 Professor Banse says that the French first applied biological warfare. 1951 ‘J. Wyndham’ Day of Triffids ii. 31 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. 1992 New Scientist 15 Feb. 46/1 Agricultural scientists, intent on saving the fynbos, have resorted to a form of biological warfare, deploying specially selected organisms, or ‘bioherbicides’, to attack the invading plants. 2004 J. Playfair Living with Germs (2007) ii. 35 Rather like plague, but milder, is tularemia... Both infections are potential candidates for biological warfare. < as lemmas |
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