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English
Adjective
zymotoxic (not comparable)
- 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.
- Synonym: toxophoric
1898, Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, page 19: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."