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ichthyotoxins

ichthyotoxins is the plural of ichthyotoxin.

Meaning of ichthyotoxin

Noun

ichthyotoxin (plural ichthyotoxins)

  1. Any chemical compound that is toxic to fish.
    • This dinoflagellate, apparently widely distributed in temperate coastal waters, produces ichthyotoxins that have killed net-pen farmed salmonids in Norway, Scotland, and Ireland (Smayda 2006).2009, Craig S. Tucker, John A. Hargreaves, Environmental Best Management Practices for Aquaculture, →ISBN, page 277
  2. Any toxin produced by fish.
    • More recently, Ehrhardt (1971) drew attention to ichthyotoxins as a whole. Among fish alone there are more than 500 species that are dangerous to man.1981, Raymond Ferrando, Traditional and Non-traditional Foods, →ISBN, page 7

Questions about ichthyotoxins

What is ichthyotoxins the plural of?
Ichthyotoxins is the plural of ichthyotoxin.

Words near ichthyotoxins in the dictionary

  1. ichthyotoxic
  2. ichthyotoxicities
  3. ichthyotoxicity
  4. ichthyotoxicology
  5. ichthyotoxin
  6. ichthyotoxins
  7. ichthyotoxism
  8. ichthyovorous
  9. ichthyphagous
  10. ichthys
  11. ichthysarcotoxism

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