biodefence

1. 1.

   procedures involved in taking defensive measures against attacks using biological agents

   Synonymsbiological defensebiological defencebiodefense

   Broaderdefense

Other forms of biodefence

plural

biodefences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about biodefence

What does biodefence mean?

biodefence means "procedures involved in taking defensive measures against attacks using biological agents".

How many syllables are in biodefence?

biodefence has 4 syllables: bi-o-de-fence. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for biodefence?

Close synonyms include biological defense, biological defence, biodefense. 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 biodefence a common word?

biodefence 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.