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any weapon usable in biological warfare

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they feared use of the smallpox virus as a bioweapon

↑Bacillus anthracis, ↑anthrax bacillus, ↑clostridium perfringens, ↑aflatoxin, ↑botulin, ↑botulinus toxin, ↑botulismotoxin, ↑staphylococcal enterotoxin B, ↑SEB

biological weapon UK US noun [countable] [singular biological weapon plural biological weapons]

harmful bacteria that are used as a weapon in war

Thesaurus: chemical and biological weapons_hyponym

noun, pl ⋯ -ons [count]

: a harmful living thing (such as a germ that causes disease) used as a weapon in a war

ˌbioˌlogical ˈweapon [biological weapon] noun

a weapon of war that uses harmful bacteria

compare ↑chemical weapon