biological agent

1. 1.

   any bacterium or virus or toxin that could be used in biological warfare

   Synonymsbiohazard

   Broaderagent

Questions about biological agent

What does biological agent mean?

biological agent means "any bacterium or virus or toxin that could be used in biological warfare".

What is another word for biological agent?

Close synonyms include biohazard. 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 biological agent a common word?

biological agent 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.