mydatoxin

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μυδάω (mudáō, “be wet”) + toxin.

Noun

mydatoxin (usually uncountable, plural mydatoxins)

(organic chemistry) A poisonous amido acid, C₆H₁₃NO₂, originally obtained from decaying horseflesh and similar in action to curare.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mydatoxin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)