Toxin is a word meaning poisonous substance. It is also a synonym of poison & venom (toxins can be found in both poisons and venom, and poisons and venom can both be toxic).[1]
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The Poisoned Lake in Kolyma is toxic. Drinking from it will cause someone to die from extreme poisoning.[2]
Dr. Cadaver's Defoliant is non-toxic to animals.[3]
Toadstool powder is toxic.[4]
Most weevils are not poisonous. However, Entomon Wilson's wandering weevils have a poison unlike any seen in Daventry. The poison is in the jaws of the warrior weevil caste. They bite onto enemies and pump poison into their veins. With lack of an antidote, the poison has to work its way out of ones system on its own, or it will kill them. Luckily the cyclopedia contains a lot of knowledge of how to defeat the weevil poison. The warrior weevils use a tetrodotoxin (C11H17N3O8) often found in the newts of Sirenia, and toads near the Sea of Barnacles. The toxin blocks nerve conduction by suppressing... Antidotes to tetrodotoxin include stimulants such as Eidolon Eiger's Tea of Thyme or Zorobia's Potion Number Eleven have been shown to have some effect. Other stimulants may have some beneficial effect, but no entries exist concerning any clinical trials. Three drops of Grafton George’s Spirit Revitalizer also turned out to be effective.[5]
Woodland faery music is soft, lilting, and unlike anything most humans have ever heard before. It fills one's heart and mind with its soft sweetness, intoxicating in its beauty.[6]
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- ↑ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/toxin
- ↑ Narrator (KQ2): "You climb into the decrepit rowboat, and the shrouded fiend paddles across the toxic lake to the shore.", "You look longingly at the other side of the toxic lake.", "You bend over and take a deep drink of the stinking water. Oh, dear, the lake is toxic! You die of extreme poisoning.", "The lake is foul and toxic. How could you get across it?"
- ↑ (PROUDLY)It's a defoliant, my dear. It'll knock the leaves off of any kind of creepy-crawly plant you'd care to think of. Totally non-toxic to animals, that's the beauty of it! It's a wonder I found it. These shelves DO need organizing. Tsk tsk tsk.
- ↑ Rosella (KQ7):"(THINKS TO HERSELF)Leg of lizard...eye of newt...toxic toadstool powder...monosodium glutemate--yikes!
- ↑ KQSNW, pg
- ↑ KQTFC, pg