biodefense

Questions about biodefense

What does biodefense mean?

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

How many syllables are in biodefense?

biodefense has 4 syllables and divides as bi-o-de-fense under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for biodefense?

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

biodefense 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.