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biopiracy

noun

Etymology

From bio- + piracy, coined by Canadian environmentalist Pat Roy Mooney in the early 1990s.

  1. derived from πειρατεία
  2. derived from pīrāta
  3. derived from pīrātia
  4. prefixed as biopiracy — “bio + piracy”

Definitions

  1. The appropriation of indigenous biomedical knowledge, especially by patenting naturally…

    The appropriation of indigenous biomedical knowledge, especially by patenting naturally occurring substances.

    • […] Although most of the public demonstrations during that meeting were aimed at globalization in general (and labor and biopiracy issues in particular), they also focused on trade issues related to genetically modified foods.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for biopiracy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA