CIGUATERA

Meaning of CIGUATERA in English

n. food poisoning in humans caused by eating seafood that is contaminated with ciguatoxin (its symptoms include tingling around the lips, queasiness, vomiting, weakness and numbness)

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CIGUATERA — noun Etymology: American Spanish, from ciguato person ill with ~, perhaps from cigua sea snail Date: 1862 poisoning caused by …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
CIGUATERA — ˌsēgwəˈterə noun ( -s ) Etymology: American Spanish, probably from cigua sea snail, from Taino : poisoning caused by eating …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CIGUATERA — /see'gweuh ter"euh, sig'weuh-/ , n. a tropical disease caused by ingesting a poison found in certain marine fishes. [ 1860-65; …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CIGUATERA — noun Etymology: American Spanish, from ciguato person ill with ciguatera, perhaps from cigua sea snail Date: 1862 : poisoning caused …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
CIGUATERA — [ ˌsɪgwə'tɛ:rə ] ■ noun poisoning caused by eating tropical marine fish that carry a toxic dinoflagellate. Origin C19: from …
Concise Oxford English vocab
CIGUATERA — [ci.gua.tera] n [AmerSp, fr. ciguato person ill with ciguatera, perh. fr. cigua sea snail] (1862): poisoning caused by the ingestion …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
CIGUATERA — ciguatera BrE AmE ˌsɪɡ wə ˈteər ə ˌsiːɡ-, -ˈtɪər- AmE -ˈter- —American Spanish [ si ɣwa ˈte ɾa \]
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
CIGUATERA — Poisoning from consumption of some tropical fish which have accumulated a toxin (poison) produced by their food (coral, algae). Provokes …
Fishery English Glossary
CIGUATERA — n. Pronunciation: ˌ s ē -gw ə - ' ter- ə , ˌ si- Function: noun Etymology: American Spanish, from …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
BARRACUDA — noun (plural -da or -das) Etymology: American Spanish Date: 1678 any of a genus ( Sphyraena of the family Sphyraenidae) …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
FISH POISONING — Illness from eating varieties of poisonous fishes. Most cases are caused by one of three toxins : ciguatera poisoning, from …
Английский словарь Британика
CIGUATOXIN — ¦sēgwə¦täksə̇n, ¦sig- noun Etymology: cigua tera + toxin : a potent heat-stable lipid neurotoxin that is produced by a marine …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CIGUATOXIN — n. strong neurotoxin which is found in the flesh of some marine fish and causes ciguatera poisoning
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BARRACUDA — noun ( plural -da or -das ) Etymology: American Spanish Date: 1678 1. : any of a genus ( Sphyraena …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
TOXIN — any substance poisonous to an organism. The term is sometimes restricted to poisons spontaneously produced by living organisms (biotoxins). Besides …
Britannica English vocabulary
SNAPPER — any of about 250 species of fishes of the family Lutjanidae (order Perciformes). Snappers are found, often in abundance, throughout …
Britannica English vocabulary
GROUPER — any of numerous species of fishes of the family Serranidae (order Perciformes), many belonging to the genera Epinephelus and Mycteroperca. …
Britannica English vocabulary
FISH POISONING — illness in humans resulting from the eating of varieties of poisonous fishes. Ciguatera poisoning is one of the most common …
Britannica English vocabulary
CARANGID — any fish of the family Carangidae (order Perciformes), which contains more than 200 species of marine fishes, including such well-known …
Britannica English vocabulary
BARRACUDA — any of about 20 species of predacious fishes of the family Sphyraenidae (order Perciformes). Barracudas are found in all warm …
Britannica English vocabulary
FISH POISONING — Illness from eating varieties of poisonous fishes. Most cases are caused by one of three toxins : ciguatera poisoning, from …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

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