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单词 biowarfare
释义

biowarfare

noun

bio·​war·​fare ˌbī-ō-ˈwȯr-ˌfer How to pronounce biowarfare (audio)
: biological warfare

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Researchers determined that the SARS-CoV-2 virus emerged from horseshoe bats rather than a biowarfare lab, and generally agreed that pangolins, rather than snakes, were the likely intermediary carriers, although some support was voiced for turtles. Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020 These are core military functions, particularly in terms of biowarfare and biodefense. James Stavridis, Time, 23 Mar. 2020 Nevertheless, in the nineteen-nineties, American policymakers began to grow increasingly worried about biowarfare. Elisabeth Eaves, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2020 But the modern era of biowarfare didn’t begin until the late nineteenth century, when scientists came to understand that microbes cause disease. Elisabeth Eaves, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2020 The biowarfare resistance touted in the Model X SUV was weird enough—though probably more useful in some cases—but this is a pretty dystopian flex, to be honest. Eric Adams, Popular Mechanics, 22 Nov. 2019 Gottlieb, an enthusiast for biowarfare (though also a kind of proto-hippie who apparently made his own goat’s-milk yogurt), was eager to manufacture mind-manipulating toxins. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019 The book alleges biowarfare research involving ticks took place at Fort Detrick, Maryland, and Plum Island, New York—both areas where CDC maps note the disease is very prevalent, but the CDC itself does not have an opinion on the allegation. Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2019 That ban was enacted in 1972, amid advances in bioweaponry research and growing awareness of the risks of biowarfare. Kelsey Piper, Vox, 21 June 2019 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1951, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

biowarfare

noun

bio·​war·​fare
ˌbī-ō-ˈwȯr-ˌfer
: biological warfare
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