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Definition of Poisonous

1. Adjective. Having the qualities or effects of a poison.

2. Adjective. Not safe to eat.

3. Adjective. Marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful. "Vicious gossip"

Definition of Poisonous

1. a. Having the qualities or effects of poison; venomous; baneful; corrupting; noxious.

Definition of Poisonous

1. Adjective. Containing sufficient poison to be dangerous ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of an animal) Inedible due to containing poison; poisonous to eat ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Poisonous

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Poisonous

1. Characterised by, having the characteristics of, or containing a poison. Synonym: toxic, toxicant, toxiferous, venenous. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Poisonous

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Literary usage of Poisonous

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

1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"To the poisonous substance, that is to say, to the base of the poisonous matter of the communicable diseases, I gave originally the name of ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"Some plants are poisonous only in certain stages of their growth, ... If an animal is thin in flesh, or hungry, poisonous substances will affect it more ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1899)
"The objection was soon raised to his conclusions that the results in the ears, on which they were based, were due to strangulation and not to the poisonous ..."

4. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1889)
"... The white flower species is not poisonous Hemerocallis flava Nerine ... flower species not poisonous Leaves are poisonous Flower poisonous Convolvulus ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Certain kinds of mushrooms, usually innocuous, aro occasionally poisonous or deleterious ; and the cause of this is not always clear. ..."

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