poisonous plant
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1. a plant that when touched or ingested in sufficient quantity can be harmful or fatal to an organism (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | flora, plant, plant life, |
| definition | : | (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion (noun.tops) |
| hyponym | : | aconite, |
| definition | : | any of various usually poisonous plants of the genus Aconitum having tuberous roots and palmately lobed leaves and blue or white flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | baneberry, cohosh, herb christopher, |
| definition | : | a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | hellebore, |
| definition | : | any plant of the Eurasian genus Helleborus (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | dogbane, |
| definition | : | any of several poisonous perennial plants of the genus Apocynum having acrid milky juice and bell-shaped white or pink flowers and a very bitter root (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | nerium oleander, oleander, rose bay, |
| definition | : | an ornamental but poisonous flowering shrub having narrow evergreen leaves and clusters of fragrant white to pink or red flowers: native to East Indies but widely cultivated in warm regions (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | climbing lily, creeping lily, gloriosa, gloriosa superba, glory lily, |
| definition | : | any plant of the genus Gloriosa of tropical Africa and Asia; a perennial herb climbing by means of tendrils at leaf tips having showy yellow to red or purple flowers; all parts are poisonous (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | common snowberry, snowberry, symphoricarpos alba, waxberry, |
| definition | : | deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | american holly, christmas holly, |
| definition | : | an evergreen tree (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | poison ash, poison dogwood, poison sumac, rhus vernix, toxicodendron vernix, |
| definition | : | smooth American swamp shrub with pinnate leaves and greenish flowers followed by greenish white berries; yields an irritating oil (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | markweed, poison ivy, poison mercury, poison oak, rhus radicans, toxicodendron radicans, |
| definition | : | climbing plant common in eastern and central United States with ternate leaves and greenish flowers followed by white berries; yields an irritating oil that causes a rash on contact (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | rhus diversiloba, toxicodendron diversilobum, western poison oak, |
| definition | : | poisonous shrub of the Pacific coast of North America that causes a rash on contact (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | eastern poison oak, rhus quercifolia, rhus toxicodenedron, toxicodendron quercifolium, |
| definition | : | poisonous shrub of southeastern United States causing a rash on contact (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | chinese lacquer tree, japanese lacquer tree, japanese sumac, japanese varnish tree, lacquer tree, rhus verniciflua, toxicodendron vernicifluum, varnish tree, |
| definition | : | small Asiatic tree yielding a toxic exudate from which lacquer is obtained (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | lantana, |
| definition | : | a flowering shrub (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | aethusa cynapium, fool's parsley, lesser hemlock, |
| definition | : | European weed naturalized in America that resembles parsley but causes nausea and poisoning when eaten (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | cicuta verosa, water hemlock, |
| definition | : | tall erect highly poisonous Eurasiatic perennial herb locally abundant in marshy areas (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | spotted cowbane, spotted hemlock, spotted water hemlock, |
| definition | : | tall biennial water hemlock of northeastern North America having purple-spotted stems and clusters of extremely poisonous tuberous roots resembling small sweet potatoes (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | california fern, conium maculatum, hemlock, nebraska fern, poison hemlock, poison parsley, winter fern, |
| definition | : | large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers; usually found in damp habitats; all parts extremely poisonous (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | hemlock water dropwort, oenanthe crocata, water dropwort, |
| definition | : | European poisonous herb having tuberous roots, yellow juice that stains the skin, yellow flowers and foliage resembling celery; all parts extremely poisonous (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | oenanthe aquatica, water fennel, |
| definition | : | European poisonous herb with fibrous roots (noun.plant) |
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