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ichthyootoxins

ichthyootoxins is the plural of ichthyootoxin.

Meaning of ichthyootoxin

Noun

ichthyootoxin (plural ichthyootoxins)

  1. Any poisonous substance found in the roe or gonads of fish, but not in other parts of the fish.
    • Asano and Itoh (1962) have investigated the chemical nature of this ichthyootoxin and found it to be a lipoprotein which they designated as “dinogunellin.”1965, Bruce W. Halstead, Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals of the World: Vertebrates

Questions about ichthyootoxins

What is ichthyootoxins the plural of?
Ichthyootoxins is the plural of ichthyootoxin.

Words near ichthyootoxins in the dictionary

  1. ichthyoneuston
  2. ichthyonomy
  3. ichthyonym
  4. ichthyonyms
  5. ichthyootoxin
  6. ichthyootoxins
  7. ichthyopathogenic
  8. ichthyopathological
  9. ichthyopathology
  10. ichthyophagan
  11. ichthyophage

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