zymotoxic

English

Adjective

zymotoxic (not comparable)

  1. Denoting that group of the complement to which its solvent properties are due, in accordance with the supposition that it may be of ferment nature.
    Synonym: toxophoric
    • 1898, Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, page 19:
      The analogy here discoverable between the toxins of bacteria and these solvent reagents, or tissue-poisons, is very close, and we are obliged today to employ a similar term to describe the precise action of parasitic fungi to that now employed in bacteriology and to call the diseases which they produce not merely "zymotic," but rather "zymotoxic."
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