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Defenition of the word biological weapon

    • Defenition of the word biological weapon

      • Living organisms (or infective material derived from them) which are intended to cause disease or death in animals, plants, or man, and which depend for their effects on their ability to multiply in the person, animal or plant attacked. Various living organisms (for example, rickettsiae, viruses and fungi), as well as bacteria, can be used as weapons.
      • any weapon usable in biological warfare; "they feared use of the smallpox virus as a bioweapon"
      • any weapon usable in biological warfare

    Synonyms for the word biological weapon

      • bioarm
      • bioweapon

    Hyponyms for the word biological weapon

      • aflatoxin
      • anthrax
      • anthrax bacillus
      • Bacillus anthracis
      • botulin
      • botulinus toxin
      • botulismotoxin
      • clostridium perfringens
      • SEB
      • staphylococcal enterotoxin B

    Hypernyms for the word biological weapon

      • W.M.D.
      • weapon of mass destruction
      • WMD

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