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Definition of Poison pea
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.
Group relationships: Genus Gastrolobium
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poison Pea
Literary usage of Poison pea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"... both also known as Darling-river pea, or as poison-pea, being said to poison
stock ; the latter is also called indigo-plant and horse-poison plant. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Among plants poisonous to animals are the poison pea, fuchsia, scab-lily, indigo,
thorn-apple, box, mistletoe, and nutgrass. Many English ami foreign ..."
3. A Contribution to the Flora of Australia by William Woolls (1867)
"On the Darling, this is called " the poison pea," and it is reported to cause
madness, if not death itself, to horses. The poison seems to act on the brain, ..."
4. Recollections of a Happy Life: Being the Autobiography of Marianne North by Marianne North (1892)
"One sort, called the poison pea, has a wicked attraction for sheep, which will
run far after it, eat it greedily, and then die of atrophy in consequence, ..."
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