Meaning | Any substance produced by plants that is similar in its properties to extracellular bacterial toxin. |
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Synonym | phytotoxin |
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Narrower | brucine | A bitter alkaloid poison resembling strychnine and extracted from nux vomica |
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hemlock | poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium |
mycotoxin | A toxin produced by a fungus |
nicotine | An alkaloid poison that occurs in tobacco |
strychnine | An alkaloid plant toxin extracted chiefly from nux vomica |
tubocurarine, curare | A toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles |
Broader | toxin | A poisonous substance produced during the metabolism and growth of certain microorganisms and some higher plant and animal species |
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Spanish | fitotoxina |
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Catalan | fitotòxic, fitotoxina |
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