| NOUN | artifact | bioarm, bioweapon, biological weapon | any weapon usable in biological warfare |
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| Meaning | Any weapon usable in biological warfare. | |
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| Synonyms | bioweapon, biological weapon | |
| Narrower | Bacillus anthracis, anthrax bacillus | A species of bacillus that causes anthrax / anthrax in humans and in animals (cattle and swine and sheep and rabbits and mice and guinea pigs) |
| aflatoxin | A potent carcinogen from the fungus Aspergillus | |
| botulin, botulinus toxin, botulismotoxin | potent bacterial toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum that causes botulism | |
| clostridium perfringens | anaerobic Gram-positive rod bacterium that produces epsilon toxin | |
| staphylococcal enterotoxin B, SEB | A form of staphylococcal enterotoxin that has been used as an incapacitating agent in biological warfare | |
| Broader | weapon of mass destruction, WMD, W.M.D. | A weapon that kills or injures civilian as well as military personnel (nuclear and chemical and biological weapons) |
| Spanish | arma biológica, bioarma, bioarm | |
| Catalan | arma biològica, bioarm | |
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