venomousness

English

Etymology

venomous +‎ -ness

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈvɛnəməsnəs/, (in rapid speech) /ˈvɛnməsnəs/

Noun

venomousness (uncountable)

  1. The condition of being venomous.
    Synonym: venomosity
    • 2012, Carl T. Bergstrom, Lee Alan Dugatkin, “Phylogeny and Evolutionary History”, in Betsy Twitchell, editor, Evolution, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 125:
      Researchers assumed that there was no venom without a delivery system, and so they concluded that venomousness must be a highly derived trait seen in a relatively small fraction of all snake species.

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