English > bioweapon: 1 sense > noun 1, artifact| Meaning | Any weapon usable in biological warfare. |
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| Example | "they feared use of the smallpox virus as a bioweapon" |
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| Synonyms | biological weapon, bioarm |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Spanish | arma biológica, bioarma, bioarm |
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| Catalan | arma biològica, bioarm |
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