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Definition: Saxitoxin |
SaxitoxinNoun1. A powerful neurotoxin produced by certain dinoflagellates found in red tides; it can accumulate in mollusks that feed on the dinoflagellates and cause food poisoning to humans. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | Poison found in certain edible mollusks at certain times; elaborated by Gonyaulax species (Dinoflagellate protozoans) and consumed by mollusks, fishes, etc. without ill effects; it is neurotoxic and causes respiratory paralysis and other effects in mammals, known as paralytic shellfish poisoning. (references) |
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Crosswords: Saxitoxin |
| English words defined with "saxitoxin": red tide. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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saxitoxin | 10 |
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Words beginning with "saxitoxin": saxitoxins. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-i-n-o-s-t-x-x" | |
-3 letters: axions, isatin, taxons, toxins. | |
-4 letters: antis, axion, axons, intis, iotas, ixias, ostia, saint, santo, satin, stain, stoai, tains, taxis, taxon, toxin. | |
-5 letters: ains, aits, anis, anti, ants, axis, axon, inia, inti, into, ions, iota, ixia, naoi, naos, nisi, nits, nota, oast, oats, sain, sati, snit, snot, stoa, tain, tans, taos, taxi, tins, tons. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-i-n-o-s-t-x-x" | |
+1 letter: saxitoxins. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01111000 01101001 01110100 01101111 01111000 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a x i t o x i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 0078 0069 0074 006F 0078 0069 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)536790758681907580 |
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