PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Podophyllum peltatum mean? 

• PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM (noun)
  The noun PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM has 1 sense:

1. North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit

  Familiarity information: PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

May apple; mayapple; Podophyllum peltatum; wild mandrake

Hypernyms ("Podophyllum peltatum" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Meronyms (parts of "Podophyllum peltatum"):

May apple (edible but insipid fruit of the May apple plant)

Holonyms ("Podophyllum peltatum" is a member of...):

genus Podophyllum; Podophyllum (perennial rhizomatous herbs)

 Context examples 

A semisynthetic derivative of podophyllotoxin, a substance extracted from the mandrake root Podophyllum peltatum.

(Etoposide, NCI Thesaurus)

Epipodophyllotoxin is extracted from the mandrake root Podophyllum peltatum.

(Epipodophyllotoxin, NCI Dictionary)

A cyclolignan alkaloid found in the mayapple plant family (Podophyllum peltatum), and a small molecule inhibitor of the insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor (IGF1R) with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Picropodophyllin, NCI Thesaurus)

An alkaloid isolated or derived synthetically from Podophyllum peltatum that can bind to and inhibit topoisomerase II and its function in ligating cleaved DNA molecules, resulting in the accumulation of single- or double-strand DNA breaks, the inhibition of DNA replication and transcription, and apoptotic cell death.

(Epipodophyllotoxin Compound, NCI Thesaurus)