plant toxin

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plant toxin - any substance produced by plants that is similar in its properties to extracellular bacterial toxin

phytotoxin

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; "Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock"

toxin - a poisonous substance produced during the metabolism and growth of certain microorganisms and some higher plant and animal species

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; "curare acts by blocking cholinergic transmission at the myoneural junction"

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