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maitotoxin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
maito-tox-in
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A highly potent toxin produced by Gambierdiscus toxicus, a dinoflagellate species.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From maito + toxin; named from the ciguateric fish Ctenochaetus striatus, called maito in Tahiti, from which maitotoxin was first isolated (though it was later shown that maitotoxin is actually produced by Gambierdiscus toxicus).

Usage

Inflected Forms

maitotoxins (plural)

Synonyms

MTX

Questions

What does maitotoxin mean?
A highly potent toxin produced by Gambierdiscus toxicus, a dinoflagellate species.
Where does maitotoxin come from?
From maito + toxin; named from the ciguateric fish Ctenochaetus striatus, called maito in Tahiti, from which maitotoxin was first isolated (though it was later shown that maitotoxin is actually produced by Gambierdiscus toxicus).

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