bacteriological warfare

1. 1.

   the use of harmful bacteria as a weapon

   Synonymsgerm warfare

   Broaderbiological warfare

Questions about bacteriological warfare

What does bacteriological warfare mean?

bacteriological warfare means "the use of harmful bacteria as a weapon".

What is another word for bacteriological warfare?

Close synonyms include germ warfare. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bacteriological warfare a common word?

bacteriological warfare is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.