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[[File:T5EVenomthrope.jpg|right|250px|thumb|A '''Venomthrope''' in combat.^{{Fn|1}}]]A '''Venomthrope''' is a species of [[Tyranid]] dripping with poisons that floats across the battlefield via gas-filled bladders while emitting a lethal gas that will ultimately kill a world's indigenous life and ruin its soil and atmosphere beyond habitable levels until the world is only fit for consumption by the [[Hive Fleet]].^{{Fn|1 }} The Hive Mind uses this aspect of the Venomthrope by gathering them together in large numbers and unleashing them on a region to gradually poison it, making it harder for non-Tyranid life forms to continue the fight.^{{Fn|2}}

Venomthropes have scrawny bodies and many whip-like tentacles that are coated in poisons capable of causing death from a single touch. Its gas bladders are its primary form of attack, producing spore clouds of yellowish vapour containing phage organisms lethal to non-Tyranid life while providing cover to Tyranid creatures. Brief exposure causes nausea and spasms, while more than a minute results in infection that allows no escape for the victim from their organic tissue slowly breaking down.^{{Fn|1}}

*^{{Endn|1}}: [[Codex: Tyranids (5th Edition)]], pg . 45*^{{Endn|2}}: [[Deathwatch: Mark of the Xenos]], pg . 51