phytotoxin
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1. any substance produced by plants that is similar in its properties to extracellular bacterial toxin (noun.substance)
| hypernym | : | toxin, |
| definition | : | a poisonous substance produced during the metabolism and growth of certain microorganisms and some higher plant and animal species (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | nicotine, |
| definition | : | an alkaloid poison that occurs in tobacco; used in medicine and as an insecticide (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | strychnine, |
| definition | : | an alkaloid plant toxin extracted chiefly from nux vomica; formerly used as a stimulant (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | brucine, |
| definition | : | a bitter alkaloid poison resembling strychnine and extracted from nux vomica (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | hemlock, |
| definition | : | poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | mycotoxin, |
| definition | : | a toxin produced by a fungus (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | curare, tubocurarine, |
| definition | : | a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles (noun.substance) |
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