Definition of "botulin" []

• Any of several potent neurotoxins produced by botulinum and resistant to proteolytic digestion. (noun)

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• "Considered a pest, it is being poisoned over large expanses of its range across the Tibetan plateau using grain laced with botulin poison? at a cost of US$925m since 2006."
• "Repeated like a mantra by Administration officials was the claim that Saddam Hussein possessed "26,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulin, one and a half tons of nerve agent VX, and 6,500 aerial chemical bombs.""
• "Aum experimented with botulin toxin, anthrax, cholera, Q fever and the Ebola virus."