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9 letters · 18 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use
originFrom bio- + piracy, coined by Canadian environmentalist Pat Roy Mooney in the early 1990s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- carboy 13
- piracy 13
- biopic 12
- copay 12
- corby 12
- crapy 12
- pricy 12
- pyric 12
- ciboria 11
- copy 11
- pacy 11
- pyic 11