BIOPIRACY

biopiracy

(noun) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

biopiracy (uncountable)

(pejorative) The appropriation of indigenous biomedical knowledge, especially by patenting naturally occurring substances

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

7 November 2024

ERASE

(verb) remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; “Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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