See tetrodotoxin in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{ "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "de", "3": "Tetrodotoxin" }, "expansion": "German Tetrodotoxin", "name": "uder" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "tetr", "3": "-odon" }, "expansion": "tetr- + --odon", "name": "confix" } ], "etymology_text": "From German Tetrodotoxin, corresponding to Tetrodon (tetr- + --odon) + toxin.", "forms": [ { "form": "tetrodotoxins", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "~" }, "expansion": "tetrodotoxin (countable and uncountable, plural tetrodotoxins)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English terms prefixed with tetr-", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English terms suffixed with Unsupported titles/-`lt`span class=\"Latn\" lang=\"mul\"`gt`-odon`lt`/span`gt`", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English undefined derivations", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Entries with translation boxes", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Cantonese translations", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Finnish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with French translations", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "langcode": "en", "name": "Neurotoxins", "orig": "en:Neurotoxins", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "langcode": "en", "name": "Poisons", "orig": "en:Poisons", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "derived": [ { "tags": [ "abbreviation" ], "word": "TTX" } ], "examples": [ { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 80, 92 ] ], "ref": "1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 118:", "text": "Both creatures belong to a large pan-tropical order of fish, many of which have tetrodotoxin in their skin, liver, ovaries, and intestines.", "type": "quote" }, { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 51, 63 ] ], "ref": "2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian:", "text": "The blue-ringed octopus Hapalochlaena lunulata has tetrodotoxin, the deadly toxin it also releases in a bite, in their ink but the concentrations and effect in inking are not known.", "type": "quote" }, { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 199, 211 ] ], "ref": "2020 December 4, Ligaya Mishan, “The Appealing and Potentially Lethal Delicacy That Is Fugu”, in The New York Times Style Magazine, archived from the original on 01 Jan 2021:", "text": "Among those who think of fugu as merely a distant delicacy, knowledge rarely goes beyond the fish’s infamous trait: In the most delicious species, the innards are suffused with the neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin (TTX).", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A neurotoxin, originally discovered in Tetraodontiformes, and found in pufferfish, blue-ringed octopus, etc." ], "id": "en-tetrodotoxin-en-noun-hnsM6S1k", "links": [ [ "neurotoxicology", "neurotoxicology" ], [ "neurotoxin", "neurotoxin" ], [ "Tetraodontiformes", "Tetraodontiformes#Translingual" ], [ "pufferfish", "pufferfish" ], [ "blue-ringed octopus", "blue-ringed octopus" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(neurotoxicology) A neurotoxin, originally discovered in Tetraodontiformes, and found in pufferfish, blue-ringed octopus, etc." ], "synonyms": [ { "tags": [ "abbreviation" ], "word": "TTX" } ], "tags": [ "countable", "uncountable" ], "topics": [ "medicine", "neurology", "neuroscience", "neurotoxicology", "sciences", "toxicology" ], "translations": [ { "code": "yue", "lang": "Chinese Cantonese", "roman": "ho⁴ tyun⁴ duk⁶ sou³", "sense": "neurotoxin", "word": "河豚毒素" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "hétún dúsù", "sense": "neurotoxin", "word": "河豚毒素" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "neurotoxin", "word": "tetrodotoksiini" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "neurotoxin", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "tétrodotoxine" } ], "wikipedia": [ "tetrodotoxin" ] } ], "word": "tetrodotoxin" }
{ "derived": [ { "tags": [ "abbreviation" ], "word": "TTX" } ], "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "de", "3": "Tetrodotoxin" }, "expansion": "German Tetrodotoxin", "name": "uder" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "tetr", "3": "-odon" }, "expansion": "tetr- + --odon", "name": "confix" } ], "etymology_text": "From German Tetrodotoxin, corresponding to Tetrodon (tetr- + --odon) + toxin.", "forms": [ { "form": "tetrodotoxins", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "~" }, "expansion": "tetrodotoxin (countable and uncountable, plural tetrodotoxins)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms derived from German", "English terms prefixed with tetr-", "English terms suffixed with Unsupported titles/-`lt`span class=\"Latn\" lang=\"mul\"`gt`-odon`lt`/span`gt`", "English terms with quotations", "English uncountable nouns", "English undefined derivations", "Entries with translation boxes", "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned", "Terms with Cantonese translations", "Terms with Finnish translations", "Terms with French translations", "Terms with Mandarin translations", "en:Neurotoxins", "en:Poisons" ], "examples": [ { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 80, 92 ] ], "ref": "1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 118:", "text": "Both creatures belong to a large pan-tropical order of fish, many of which have tetrodotoxin in their skin, liver, ovaries, and intestines.", "type": "quote" }, { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 51, 63 ] ], "ref": "2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian:", "text": "The blue-ringed octopus Hapalochlaena lunulata has tetrodotoxin, the deadly toxin it also releases in a bite, in their ink but the concentrations and effect in inking are not known.", "type": "quote" }, { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 199, 211 ] ], "ref": "2020 December 4, Ligaya Mishan, “The Appealing and Potentially Lethal Delicacy That Is Fugu”, in The New York Times Style Magazine, archived from the original on 01 Jan 2021:", "text": "Among those who think of fugu as merely a distant delicacy, knowledge rarely goes beyond the fish’s infamous trait: In the most delicious species, the innards are suffused with the neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin (TTX).", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A neurotoxin, originally discovered in Tetraodontiformes, and found in pufferfish, blue-ringed octopus, etc." ], "links": [ [ "neurotoxicology", "neurotoxicology" ], [ "neurotoxin", "neurotoxin" ], [ "Tetraodontiformes", "Tetraodontiformes#Translingual" ], [ "pufferfish", "pufferfish" ], [ "blue-ringed octopus", "blue-ringed octopus" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(neurotoxicology) A neurotoxin, originally discovered in Tetraodontiformes, and found in pufferfish, blue-ringed octopus, etc." ], "tags": [ "countable", "uncountable" ], "topics": [ "medicine", "neurology", "neuroscience", "neurotoxicology", "sciences", "toxicology" ], "wikipedia": [ "tetrodotoxin" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "tags": [ "abbreviation" ], "word": "TTX" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "yue", "lang": "Chinese Cantonese", "roman": "ho⁴ tyun⁴ duk⁶ sou³", "sense": "neurotoxin", "word": "河豚毒素" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "hétún dúsù", "sense": "neurotoxin", "word": "河豚毒素" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "neurotoxin", "word": "tetrodotoksiini" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "neurotoxin", "tags": [ "feminine" ], "word": "tétrodotoxine" } ], "word": "tetrodotoxin" }
Download raw JSONL data for tetrodotoxin meaning in English (3.7kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-02 using wiktextract (0c45963 and 3c020d2). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.