Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun nicotine

1 sense of nicotine

Sense 1
nicotine -- (an alkaloid poison that occurs in tobacco; used in medicine and as an insecticide)
       => plant toxin, phytotoxin -- (any substance produced by plants that is similar in its properties to extracellular bacterial toxin)
       => alkaloid -- (natural bases containing nitrogen found in plants)
       => vasoconstrictor, vasoconstrictive, pressor -- (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)