Pharming
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pharming is a noun meaning The use of genetic engineering to alter an animal or plant in order to make it produce a pharmaceutical or similar product.
Meaning
The use of genetic engineering to alter an animal or plant in order to make it produce a pharmaceutical or similar product.
More Meanings
- (computing) The redirection of traffic for one website to another, with intent to deceive.
Example Sentences
Our prototype implements a basic pharming attack to selectively misresolve the client domain name requests.
Synonyms for pharming
Depending on context, synonyms include biofarming, biopharming.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include farm, curr, technol, pol, pharmacogene, pharmacoproteomics.
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