zigadene

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zigadene (plural zigadenes)

  1. Any of the poisonous perennial flowering plants formerly considered to be within the genus Zigadenus.
    • 1986, Thomas C. Fuller et al., Poisonous Plants of California, page 291:
      American Indians apparently were aware of the poisonous properties of the zigadenes.

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