Noun: biocide
| Singular | biocide |
| Plural | biocides |
Sample Sentences
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[T]here is the inability of the Christian world to respond in any effective way to the destruction of the planet. […] There is this terrible lack of concern for biocide or geocide. We have no moral principles to deal with them. […] Somehow, when I was quite young, I saw the beginning of biocide and geocide. [1991, Thomas Berry; Thomas Clarke; Stephen Dunn and Anne Lonergan, editors, Befriending the Earth: A Theology of Reconciliation between Humans and the Earth, Mystic, Conn.: Twenty-Third Publications, ISBN 978-0-89622-471-1; quoted in Cristina Vanin, “Attaining Harmony with the Earth”, in John C. Haughey, editor, In Search of the Whole: Twelve Essays on Faith and Academic Life, Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-58901-781-8, page 184]
Nouns inflected like biocide
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
3. Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
4. Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der.
5. English bio-
6. Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-der.
7. Proto-Italic *kaidō
8. Latin caedō
9. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
10. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂
11. Proto-Italic *-ā
12. Latin -a
13. Latin -cīdader.
14. Middle French -cidebor.
15. English -cide
16. English biocide
17. From bio- + -cide.
Verbs referencing "biocide"
Dutch Nouns
biocide, Finnish Nouns
biosidi.