Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

batrachotoxin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ba-tra-chotox-in
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An extremely neurotoxic and cardiotoxic steroidal alkaloid found in poison dart frogs.

Uncountable

noun

Any one of a group of extremely neurotoxic and cardiotoxic steroidal alkaloids found in poison dart frogs, Melyridae beetles, and certain birds.

Countable

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βάτραχος (bátrakhos, “frog”) + toxin.

Usage

Inflected Forms

batrachotoxins (plural)

Derived Forms

batrachotoxinin homobatrachotoxin

Questions

What does batrachotoxin mean?: An extremely neurotoxic and cardiotoxic steroidal alkaloid found in poison dart frogs.
Where does batrachotoxin come from?: From Ancient Greek βάτραχος (bátrakhos, “frog”) + toxin.

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