RED TIDE


Meaning of RED TIDE in English

noun Date: 1904 seawater discolored by the presence of large numbers of dinoflagellates (especially of the genera Gonyaulax and Gymnodinium ) which produce a toxin poisonous especially to many forms of marine vertebrate life and to humans who consume contaminated shellfish

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