P for Phytotoxins – #atozchallenge
“A Brilliant Conspiracy” Episode 16.
Phytotoxins quickly ravaged sturdy beings; elements that killed grooms, horses and fauna – unwitting victims.
Wood absorbed deadly compounds into xylem liquid; mirroring necrotic yellowing of jaundice.
Zoopery?
Glossary:
Phytotoxins plant poisons
Xylem plant tissue
Necrotic pertaining to the death of tissue in response to disease or injury.
Zoopery experimentation on animals
Archibald’s ‘Horse of the Day’
http://www.paulaura.com/betgloss.htm
Phar Lap: As Australia and New Zealand’s most famed Thoroughbred racehorse. who won 37 of his 51 career starts, this is a Punter’s dream.
[While the fate of Phar Lap has never been resolved, the popular consensus from a 2000 necropsy is that he was poisoned with a large dose of arsenic.]
Jamila’s ‘Daily Poison’
http://www.britannica.com/science/poison-biochemistry/Types-of-poison#ref396648
Pyrethrum (Tanacetum cinerariifolium);
Distribution: Tasmania, Ecuador, Balkans, Kenya, Tanzania;
Toxic principle: pyrethrins; Though pyrethrins are typically viewed as being among the safest insecticides in the market due to their rapid degradation in the environment, synthetic pyrethroids are comparatively toxic.
Symptoms: In mammals, toxic exposure to pyrethrum can lead to tongue and lip numbness, drooling, lethargy, muscle tremors, respiratory failure, vomiting, diarrhoea, seizures, paralysis, and death.
Word Links
http://phrontistery.info/glossaries.html
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/wordlist/adverbs.shtml
https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/prepositions-list.htm
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The Challenge runs over 26 days – with Sundays off for good behaviour – and each day will be based on the alphabet, from A through to Z.
Read more about the Challenge I set myself in my Theme Reveal:
Blogging from A to Z Challenge Theme Reveal 2016
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