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  • noun A toxin produced by a living organism.

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  • noun Any toxin produced by a living organism

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Examples

  • That was all it took apparently for Secretary of State Colin Powell, to stand before the UN and perform his ceremonial waving of a perfume bottle to illustrate biotoxin production in Iraq and Saddam Hussein's evil nature, and to rationalize the American invasion of Iraq.

    Gail Vida Hamburg: As Iraq War Memory Fades, the Art Endures Gail Vida Hamburg 2011

  • That was all it took apparently for Secretary of State Colin Powell, to stand before the UN and perform his ceremonial waving of a perfume bottle to illustrate biotoxin production in Iraq and Saddam Hussein's evil nature, and to rationalize the American invasion of Iraq.

    Gail Vida Hamburg: As Iraq War Memory Fades, the Art Endures Gail Vida Hamburg 2011

  • This season, he's airing his misgivings more frequently and, worse, has become literally and dangerously ill as a result of being exposed to a biotoxin.

    David Finkle: What's Television Telling Us About American Men in Deep-uh-? 2009

  • In addition, climate change is projected to exacerbate health problems, such as heat-related illness, cholera, dengue fever and biotoxin poisoning, placing additional stress on the already overextended health systems of most small island states (see Chapter 2).

    Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 6 2008

  • Whether the increases in the frequency and extent of nearshore plankton blooms are responsible for the rise in incidence of biotoxin-related shellfish closures (see White and Robertson, 1996) and marine mammals mortalities, remains an important open question.

    Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf large marine ecosystem 2008

  • Hell, just a few years back I used to sweat over mass extinction from some terrorist biotoxin.

    The Atlantis Prophecy Thomas Greanias 2008

  • The propaganda artists selected a small Kurdish splinter group called Ansar al-Salam and elevated it into an organized group of Al Qaeda “terrorists” who were “said to be” controlled by Saddam Hussein and “believed to be” producing ricin, a deadly biotoxin.

    Think Progress » January 2005: Gonzales Said Bush Did Not ‘Authorize Actions’ In Contravention of Our Criminal Statutes 2005

  • My basic position: I as a consumer should not have to carry around a list in my pocket of every biotoxin that might be in a kitchen just so I can make sure it's safe to eat there.

    What I think is really going on in the war on trans fat. Ann Althouse 2006

  • From what I heard, this is a engineered bio-agent, perhaps a bacterial vector, that would have a gene inserted for the manufacture of some biotoxin or another that would only become active in the presence of specific genetic markers, allowing it to be tailored to attack people of particular ancestry but not others.

    Prof. Steve Steve Costume Contest - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • And one more really scary prospect comes to mind: it would also be a potential portable nerve gas and biotoxin factory.

    The Speculist: Exponential Fab 2005

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  • a poisonous substance produced by a living organism

    August 12, 2009