| Main Entry: | biological weapon |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | a weapon of mass destruction that uses a biological agent or pathogen such as bacteria or a virus that is harmful to living beings and vegetation; also called bioweapon |
| biological weapon | |
noun | |
| any weapon usable in biological warfare; "they feared use of the smallpox virus as a bioweapon" [syn: bioweapon] |