the release by certain plants, such as cherry laurel, of hydrogen cyanide, esp after wounding or invasion by pathogens
Examples of 'cyanogenesis' in a sentence
cyanogenesis
No direct chemical defence through cyanogenesis was detected in any of the plant groups.
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