biopiracy

1. 1.

   biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use

   Broaderlarceny

Other forms of biopiracy

plural

biopiracies·

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 biopiracy

What does biopiracy mean?

biopiracy means "biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use".

How many syllables are in biopiracy?

biopiracy has 5 syllables: bi-o-pi-ra-cy. The stress falls on "pi".

Is biopiracy a common word?

biopiracy 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.