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A form of tetrodotoxin — A neurotoxin, originally discovered in Tetraodontiformes, and found in pufferfish, blue-ringed octopus, etc.

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nounTTX (uncountable)
  1. abbreviationinitialismuncountableInitialism of tetrodotoxin.

    Just two or three milligrams of TTX may be lethal to a human — “more potent than arsenic, cyanide or even anthrax,” the American science writer Christie Wilcox notes in “Venomous: How Earth’s Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry” (2016).

    2020 December 4, Ligaya Mishan, “The Appealing and Potentially Lethal Delicacy That Is Fugu”, in The New York Times Style Magazine, archived from the original on 01 Jan 2021

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APA

TTX. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/TTX

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “TTX,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/TTX.

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