PLANT TOXIN

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Meaning:

Any substance produced by plants that is similar in its properties to extracellular bacterial toxin

Synonyms:

phytotoxin; plant toxin

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("plant toxin" is a kind of...):

toxin (a poisonous substance produced during the metabolism and growth of certain microorganisms and some higher plant and animal species)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plant toxin"):

nicotine (an alkaloid poison that occurs in tobacco; used in medicine and as an insecticide)

strychnine (an alkaloid plant toxin extracted chiefly from nux vomica; formerly used as a stimulant)

brucine (a bitter alkaloid poison resembling strychnine and extracted from nux vomica)

hemlock (poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium)

mycotoxin (a toxin produced by a fungus)

curare; tubocurarine (a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles)