PODOPHYLLUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Podophyllum mean? 

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

1. perennial rhizomatous herbs

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PODOPHYLLUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perennial rhizomatous herbs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Podophyllum; Podophyllum

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

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Podophyllum"):

May apple; mayapple; Podophyllum peltatum; wild mandrake (North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit)

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

barberry family; Berberidaceae; family Berberidaceae (shrubs or 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)