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Definition of Poisonous substance
1. Noun. Any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism.
Generic synonyms: Substance
Specialized synonyms: Atropine, Hyoscyamine, Toxin
Derivative terms: Poison, Poison, Poison, Poisonous
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poisonous Substance
Literary usage of Poisonous substance
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. A Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence by Francis Wharton, Moreton Stillé (1860)
"Whether a poisonous substance exercises its specific deleterious action by being
... The cases in which a really poisonous substance has been taken with ..."
3. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1852)
"As the endeavours of Le Tellier, Vauquelin, and Braconnot, to isolate the poisonous
substance of the A. muscarius, led to no result, ..."
4. Reports of Cases Before the High Court and Circuit Courts of Justiciary in by Scotland High Court of Justiciary, Alexander Forbes Irvine (1865)
"... or other poisonous substance into and among a portion of the oatmeal which
yon purchased, or caused or procured to be purchased as aforesaid, ..."
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