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The Adobe Flash Player is required in order to view this content. You can get it here: red tideOne entry found. Main Entry: red tide Function: noun Date: 1904 : seawater discolored by the presence of large numbers of dinoflagellates (especially of the genera Gonyaulax and Gymnodinium) which produce a toxin poisonous especially to many forms of marine vertebrate life and to humans who consume contaminated shellfish — compare saxitoxin 
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