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Word: Ciguatera
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
mid 19th century: from American Spanish, from cigua ‘sea snail’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˌsɪɡwəˈtɛːrə
Dialects: British English
Definition:
poisoning by neurotoxins as a result of eating the flesh of tropical marine fish that carries a toxic dinoflagellate.
Short Definition:poisoning by neurotoxins as result of eating flesh of tropical marine fish that carries toxic dinoflagellate
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