HyperDic: amianthum_muscaetoxicum

English > 1 sense of the expression Amianthum muscaetoxicum:
NOUNplantAmianthum muscaetoxicum, fly poison, Amianthum muscitoxicumall parts of plant are highly toxic
English > Amianthum muscaetoxicum: 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 muscitoxicum
Member ofAmianthum, genus AmianthumOne species
Broaderliliaceous plantplant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber

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