A highly poisonous alkaloid neurotoxin, which occurs in skin secretions of frogs of the South and Central American genus Phyllobates (family Dendrobatidae).
Origin
1960s.
Definition of batrachotoxin in US English:
batrachotoxin
nounˌbatrəkəʊˈtɒksɪn
Biochemistry
A highly poisonous alkaloid neurotoxin, which occurs in skin secretions of frogs of the South and Central American genus Phyllobates (family Dendrobatidae).