nicotine
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1. an alkaloid poison that occurs in tobacco; used in medicine and as an insecticide (noun.substance)
| hypernym | : | pressor, vasoconstrictive, vasoconstrictor, |
| definition | : | any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure (noun.artifact) |
| hypernym | : | alkaloid, |
| definition | : | natural bases containing nitrogen found in plants (noun.substance) |
| hypernym | : | phytotoxin, plant toxin, |
| definition | : | any substance produced by plants that is similar in its properties to extracellular bacterial toxin (noun.substance) |
| substance meronym | : | baccy, tobacco, |
| definition | : | leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion (noun.artifact) |
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