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ciguatera

ciguatera noun: a foodborne poisoning in humans caused by eating marine species whose flesh is contaminated with ciguatoxin.

Noun

ciguatera (countable and uncountable, plural ciguateras)

  1. A foodborne poisoning in humans caused by eating marine species whose flesh is contaminated with ciguatoxin.
    • While you've probably never heard of ciguatera toxin, it's the most common form of fish poisoning and creates a health problem for any population that routinely consumes tropical reef species.2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 7, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN

Forms of ciguatera

pluralciguateras

Origin of ciguatera

Borrowed from Spanish ciguatera.

Words formed from ciguatera

Questions about ciguatera

What does ciguatera mean?
Ciguatera means a foodborne poisoning in humans caused by eating marine species whose flesh is contaminated with ciguatoxin.
What part of speech is ciguatera?
Ciguatera is a noun.
What is the plural of ciguatera?
The plural of ciguatera is ciguateras.

Words near ciguatera in the dictionary

  1. ciggies
  2. ciggy
  3. ciglitazone
  4. cigs
  5. Cigu
  6. ciguatera
  7. ciguateras
  8. ciguateratoxin
  9. ciguateratoxins
  10. ciguateric
  11. ciguatoxic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ciguatera (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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