plant toxin

Questions about plant toxin

What does plant toxin mean?

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

What is another word for plant toxin?

Close synonyms include phytotoxin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plant toxin a common word?

plant toxin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.