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conotoxin

noun

Etymology

From cone + toxin.

  1. derived from toxicum
  2. compounded as conotoxin — “cone + toxin”

Definitions

  1. A neurotoxic peptide isolated from the venom of a marine cone snail of genus Conus.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for conotoxin. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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