Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a poisonous substance produced during the metabolism and growth of certain microorganisms and some higher plant and animal species;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Toxin \Tox"in\, Toxine \Tox"ine\, n. [Gr. toxiko`n. See Toxic.
]
A poisonous product formed by an organism, such as a
pathogenic bacterium, a plant or an animal, usually having a
high molecular weight, often a protein or a polysaccharide,
but occasionally a low-molecular weight agent such as
tetrodotoxin.
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
toxin
n 1: a poisonous substance produced during the metabolism and
growth of certain microorganisms and some higher plant and
animal species