zymotoxic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Denoting that group of the complement to which its solvent properties are due, in accordance with the supposition that it may be of ferment nature.
Example Sentences
- "The analogy here discoverable between the toxins of bacteria and these solvent reagents, or tissue-poisons, is very close, and we are obliged today to employ a similar term to describe the precise action of parasitic fungi to that now employed in bacteriology and to call the diseases which they produce not merely "zymotic," but rather "zymotoxic.""