venin

Four fishing boats moored on the Quai Gambetta were damaged on Christmas Day, officials said, prompting the assistant prefet, Jean-Philippe Venin, to announce a reinforced police presence around the port.

Hsu describes some innovative ideas being worked on by small research groups around the world, including an anti­venin targeted at sub-Saharan Africa that could be cheaply modified to work on snakes from other regions.

There is a French expression, cracher son venin, that translates to “spit one’s venom.”

Vin sur lait, c’est souhait; lait sur vin, c’est venin.

Je demanday par plusieurs fois au médecin s’il y avoit quelque soubçon de venin.