venomousness
English
Etymology
venomous + -ness
Noun
venomousness (uncountable)
- The condition of being venomous.
- 2012, Carl T. Bergstrom and 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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