biocide

== English == === Etymology === From bio- +‎ -cide. === 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. ==== Related terms ==== biocidal ==== Translations ==== === See also === == Dutch == === Etymology === Borrowed, probably from English biocide. === Pronunciation === === Noun === biocide n (plural biocides or biociden, no diminutive) biocide === Further reading === biocide on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bjɔ.sid/ Homophone: biocides === Adjective === biocide (plural biocides) biocidal === Noun === biocide m (plural biocides) biocide === Further reading === “biocide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Italian == === Adjective === biocide feminine plural of biocida