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BIOPIRACY
Definition of BIOPIRACY
noun
The appropriation of indigenous biomedical knowledge, especially by patenting naturally occurring substances.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From bio- + piracy, coined by Canadian environmentalist Pat Roy Mooney in the early 1990s.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BIOPIRACY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 114, 11 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 114, 11 September 2026.
Built from these letters
BIOPIRACY starts with B and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ABCIIOPRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start BIOPIR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BIOPIRACY?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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