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tetrodotoxin

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12 lettersPart of speech nounSorted deinooortttxStarts with TEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a powerful neurotoxin found in the ovaries of pufferfish

Word origin

From German Tetrodotoxin, corresponding to Tetrodon (tetr- + translingual -odon) + toxin.

Used in a sentence

  • Both creatures belong to a large pan-tropical order of fish, many of which have tetrodotoxin in their skin, liver, ovaries, and intestines.
  • The blue-ringed octopus Hapalochlaena lunulata has tetrodotoxin, the deadly toxin it also releases in a bite, in their ink but the concentrations and effect in inking are not known.
  • Among those who think of fugu as merely a distant delicacy, knowledge rarely goes beyond the fish’s infamous trait: In the most delicious species, the innards are suffused with the neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin (TTX).

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