#plant_toxin__planttoxin__phytotoxin any substance produced by plants that is similar in its properties to extracellular bacterial toxin
supertype: #toxin a poisonous substance produced during the metabolism and growth of certain microorganisms and some higher plant and animal species
subtype: #nicotine an alkaloid poison that occurs in tobacco; used in medicine and as an insecticide
subtype: #strychnine an alkaloid plant toxin extracted chiefly from nux vomica; formerly used as a stimulant
subtype: #brucine a bitter alkaloid poison resembling strychnine and extracted from nux vomica
subtype: #hemlock.plant_toxin poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium; "Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock"
subtype: #tubocurarine__curare a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles; used by South American indians as an arrow poison; "curare acts by blocking cholinergic transmission at the myoneural junction"
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