biopiraterie
French, noun/bjɔ.pi.ʁa.tʁi/
biopiraterie is spelled B-I-O-P-I-R-A-T-E-R-I-E (12 letters) and appears about once in every 27 million words in written French, the 166,446th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Biopiraterie is a French feminine noun meaning “biopiracy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Appropriation de connaissances biomédicales autochtones, par le biais de brevets, par des firmes privées du…”.
What does biopiraterie mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininebiopiracy
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Appropriation de connaissances biomédicales autochtones, par le biais de brevets, par des firmes privées du génie génétique sans compensation pour les groupes autochtones qui ont initialement développé ces connaissances.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of biopiraterie
- biopirateries plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce biopiraterie?
- /bjɔ.pi.ʁa.tʁi/
- \bjɔ.pi.ʁa.tʁi\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is biopiraterie in French?
biopiraterie appears about once in every 27 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).