单词 | biowar |
释义 | > as lemmasbiowar biowar n. Brit. /ˈbʌɪə(ʊ)wɔː/ , U.S. /ˈbaɪoʊˌwɔr/ (as a mass noun) = biological warfare n. at biological adj. and n. Compounds; (as a count noun) a conflict involving the use of biological or biochemical weapons.ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > chemical or germ warfare chemical warfare1912 germ warfare1919 bacteriological warfare1924 biological warfare1933 biowar1950 biowarfare1951 1950 Galaxy Sci. Fiction Dec. 69/1 It is hush-hush, top-secret stuff…Anyone knowing bio-war developments would understand. 1982 Christian Sci. Monitor 11 Feb. (Eastern ed.) 2/5 (heading) Pakistan expels American after Soviet biowar claim. 1993 A. Toffler & H. Toffler War & Anti-war iii. xiv. 122 It is now known that work on offensive bio-war weapons continued in the Soviet Union long after it signed a 1972 treaty outlawing such arms. 2001 Birmingham Post (Electronic ed.) 13 Oct. The only example we have of an anthrax epidemic was at Sverdlovsk, Russia in 1979 when spores escaped from a military factory. It is generally remembered as a terrifying example of what could happen during a biowar. < as lemmas |
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