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Definition of Poison dogwood

1. Noun. Smooth American swamp shrub with pinnate leaves and greenish flowers followed by greenish white berries; yields an irritating oil.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Poison Dogwood

Literary usage of Poison dogwood

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

1. Poison Ivy and Swamp Sumach by Annie Oakes Huntington (1908)
"The confusion has arisen entirely from the similarity of the popular names " poison dogwood " and " flowering dogwood." As the flowering dogwood is not ..."

2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Rhus Toxicodendron (poison ivy) and R. Vernix (poison sumach, poison elder, poison dogwood) contain in all their parts an oily, extremely irritating ..."

3. Health at home, ; or, Hall's family doctor by William Whitty Hall (1876)
"See poison dogwood. Poke, or Pokeberry Plant. See Hellebore. ... See poison dogwood. 1 Rue, Oil of. See Oil of Rue.—Saltpetre. See Nitre. Savin Oil. ..."

4. Nantucket Wild Flowers by Alice Owen Albertson (1921)
"The Poison Elder or poison dogwood is a low shrub, almost tree-like. Its branches spread at right angles to the trunk, so that its general appearance is ..."

5. History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts by Hingham (Mass.), Thomas Tracy Bouvé, Edward Tracy Bouvé, John Davis Long, Fearing Burr, Charles Winfield Scott Seymour, Walter Lincoln Bouvé, Francis Henry Lincoln, George Lincoln, Edmund Hersey (1893)
"... or Poison Sumach, often called the poison dogwood, is found in nearly all our swamps. It is poisonous alike to the touch and taste, and at times imparts ..."

6. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1858)
"We come lastly to the Bohon Upas of our own land, the poison dogwood, (Rhus venenata.) This is confessedly a very dangerous plant, and is allied to the ..."

7. Our Bodies and how We Live: An Elementary Text-book of Physiology and by Albert Franklin Blaisdell (1904)
"All parts of the poison sumac (poison dogwood, poison elder) are dangerous. ... A few other plants, as poison dogwood and stramonium plant, ..."

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