biocide
English
“KONTRA Wühlmaustöter”, an old brand of phosphide rat poison manufactured by the company Georg Vogger of Geisenfeld, Upper Bavaria, Germany
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbaɪəʊsaɪd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbaɪoʊsaɪd/
- Hyphenation: bio‧cide
Noun
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
Translations
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bjɔ.sid/
Audio (file) - Homophone: biocides
Further reading
- “biocide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
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