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biocide

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English

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EnglishWikipedia has an article on:
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“KONTRA Wühlmaustöter”, an old brand ofphosphide rat poison manufactured by the company Georg Vogger ofGeisenfeld,Upper Bavaria, Germany

Etymology

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Frombio- +‎-cide.

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Noun

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biocide (countable anduncountable,pluralbiocides)

  1. Anyaction orsubstance that candestroylivingorganisms.
    • 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 forbiocide or geocide. We have no moral principles to deal with them. [] Somehow, when I was quite young, I saw the beginning ofbiocide and geocide.

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Translations

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any substance that can destroy living organisms

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed, probably fromEnglishbiocide.

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Noun

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biocide n (pluralbiocidesorbiociden,nodiminutive)

  1. biocide

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French

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Adjective

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biocide (pluralbiocides)

  1. biocidal

Noun

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biocide m (pluralbiocides)

  1. biocide

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Italian

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Adjective

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biocide

  1. feminineplural ofbiocida
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