HyperDic: amianthum_muscitoxicum

English > 1 sense of the expression Amianthum muscitoxicum:
NOUNplantAmianthum muscitoxicum, fly poison, Amianthum muscaetoxicumall parts of plant are highly toxic
English > Amianthum muscitoxicum: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
MeaningAll parts of plant are highly toxic; bulb pounded and used as a fly poison; sometimes placed in subfamily Melanthiaceae.
Synonymsfly poison, Amianthum muscaetoxicum
Member ofAmianthum, genus AmianthumOne species
Broaderliliaceous plantplant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber

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