different between biocidal vs biocide

English

Adjective

biocidal (comparative more biocidal, superlative most biocidal)

1. Able to kill living organisms, especially microorganisms

Related terms

• biocide

Translations

Anagrams

• diabolic

English

Etymology

From bio- +? -cide.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ba???sa?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ba?o?sa?d/
• Hyphenation: bio?cide

Noun

biocide (countable and uncountable, plural biocides)

1. 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

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See also

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bj?.sid/
• Homophone: biocides

Adjective

biocide (plural biocides)

1. biocidal

Noun

biocide m (plural biocides)

1. biocide

Italian

Adjective

biocide

1. feminine plural of biocida