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Definition of Poison bush

1. Noun. Any of various Australian evergreen shrubs of the genus Gastrolobium having whorled compound leaves poisonous to livestock and showy yellow to deep reddish-orange flowers followed by two-seeded pods.

2. Noun. Either of two Australian plants of the genus Swainsona that are poisonous to sheep.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Poison Bush

poise poised poiseless poiser poisers poises poisha poising poison poison-berry

poison-ivy poison-pen letter poison-pen letters poison arrow plant poison ash poison bush (current term) poison camas poison control centres poison dart frog poison dart frogs

poison dogwood poison gas poison gland poison glands poison hemlock poison ivy poison mercury poison milkweed poison oak poison parsley

Literary usage of Poison bush

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"Poison-Bush, n. name given to a genus of poisonous Australian shrubs, ... M., is the poison-bush of the Queensland interior and of Central Australia. ..."

2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"Poison-Bush, ». name given to a genus of poisonous Australian shrubs, ... M., is the poison-bush of the Queensland interior and of Central Australia. ..."

3. ... Select Notes on the International Sunday School Lessons by Adolphus Frederick Schauffler (1888)
"The man for the first time saw himself as he appeared to others.— HL Hastings, in the Christian. Illustration. THE POISON-BUSH AND ITS REMEDY. ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1865)
"From what could be learned of the squatters they had lost about 30 per cent, of their sheep from the poison-bush, in coming over the ranges from Queensland. ..."

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