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PLANT TOXIN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does plant toxin mean?
• PLANT TOXIN (noun)
The noun PLANT TOXIN has 1 sense:
1. any substance produced by plants that is similar in its properties to extracellular bacterial toxin
Familiarity information: PLANT TOXIN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any substance produced by plants that is similar in its properties to extracellular bacterial toxin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
phytotoxin; plant toxin
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)
Context examples
Semisynthetic conjugates of various toxic molecules, including radioactive isotopes and bacterial or plant toxins, with specific immune substances such as immunoglobulins, monoclonal antibodies, and antigens.
(Immunotoxin Cancer Immunotherapy, NCI Thesaurus)
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