biological warfare

1. 1.

   the use of bacteria or viruses or toxins to destroy men and animals or food

   SynonymsBWbiological attackbiologic attackbioattack

   Broaderwar

   Narrowergerm warfare

Questions about biological warfare

What does biological warfare mean?

biological warfare means "the use of bacteria or viruses or toxins to destroy men and animals or food".

What is another word for biological warfare?

Close synonyms include BW, biological attack, biologic attack, bioattack. 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 warfare a common word?

biological 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.