Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various toxic substances found in the venom of snakes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
venene .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol. Chem.) A toxic substance contained in the venom of poisonous snakes; also, a (supposedly identical) toxic substance obtained by the cleavage of an albumose.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He never administered anti-venin just asked for a description of the snake and if we killed it.
Snakes in the Grass? 2009
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He never administered anti-venin just asked for a description of the snake and if we killed it.
Snakes in the Grass? 2009
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Le Père n'a pas sur lui de remède contre le venin.
Archive 2008-11-23 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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Le Père n'a pas sur lui de remède contre le venin.
Fête de la Médaille Miraculeuse de Brantigny........................ 2008
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Antivenom (anti-venin) An antitoxin used to treat poisoning from a venom, such as snake poison.
Chapter 33 1993
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The liquid venin de crapaud, derived from the distilled body fluids of toads killed with arsenic, would bring death in a few hours.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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The liquid venin de crapaud, derived from the distilled body fluids of toads killed with arsenic, would bring death in a few hours.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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"It is," he explained, carefully, "some of the very anticrotalus venin which we have perfected right here in the institute."
The Film Mystery 1908
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M. Fézandat and R. Granjon, “Ne la mort, ne le venin”; and the motto of
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Et ta langue qui etait comme un serpent rouge dardant des poisons, elle ne remue plus, elle ne dit rien maintenant, Iokanaan, cette vipere rouge qui a vomi son venin sur moi.
Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 1877
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