English Explanatory Dictionary

gonyautoxin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Any of a family of paralytic shellfish poisons used in the treatment of anal fissures

Word forms

gonyautoxin gonyautoxins

Etymology

Blend of Gonyaulax + toxin, Gonyaulax being the genus name of dinoflagellate plankton.

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