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biowarfare
biowarfare n.
Brit. 
/ˌbʌɪə(ʊ)ˈwɔːfɛː/
, /ˌbʌɪə(ʊ)ˈwɔːfɛː/U.S. /ˌbaɪoʊˈwɔrˌfɛ(ə)r/
= biological warfare n. at biological adj. and n. Compounds./ˌbaɪoʊˈwɔrˌfɛ(ə)r/ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > chemical or germ warfare
chemical warfare1912
germ warfare1919
bacteriological warfare1924
biological warfare1933
biowar1950
biowarfare1951
1951 A. Yuwiler in Astounding Sci. Fiction June 114/2 The panacealike antibiotics and chemotherapeutic agents have been evolved just in time to afford a practical method for waging the most insidious and deadly type of warfare conceivable, Bio-Warfare.
1971 It 2 June 3/2 The Army Germ Warfare Testing Centre at Desert, Utah, announced it was..changing its title to ‘Defensive Bio-Warfare Research’.
1997 N. DeMille Plum Island xii. 137 A good day for the bio-warfare gentlemen is a day when their scientists can genetically engineer the FMD [= foot and mouth disease] virus to infect humans.
2001 Toronto Star 13 Jan. a17/2 The fearsome virus..is closely related to smallpox, raising fears the technology could be used in biowarfare.
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