English

Noun

venomousness

1. 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 9780393913415, 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.