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POISONOUS PLANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A plant that when touched or ingested in sufficient quantity can be harmful or fatal to an organism
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("poisonous plant" is a kind of...):
flora; plant; plant life ((botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poisonous plant"):
Oenanthe aquatica; water fennel (European poisonous herb with fibrous roots)
hemlock water dropwort; Oenanthe crocata; water dropwort (European poisonous herb having tuberous roots, yellow juice that stains the skin, yellow flowers and foliage resembling celery; all parts extremely poisonous)
California fern; Conium maculatum; hemlock; Nebraska fern; poison hemlock; poison parsley; winter fern (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)
spotted cowbane; spotted hemlock; spotted water hemlock (tall biennial water hemlock of northeastern North America having purple-spotted stems and clusters of extremely poisonous tuberous roots resembling small sweet potatoes)
Cicuta verosa; water hemlock (tall erect highly poisonous Eurasiatic perennial herb locally abundant in marshy areas)
Aethusa cynapium; fool's parsley; lesser hemlock (European weed naturalized in America that resembles parsley but causes nausea and poisoning when eaten)
lantana (a flowering shrub)
Chinese lacquer tree; Japanese lacquer tree; Japanese sumac; Japanese varnish tree; lacquer tree; Rhus verniciflua; Toxicodendron vernicifluum; varnish tree (small Asiatic tree yielding a toxic exudate from which lacquer is obtained)
eastern poison oak; Rhus quercifolia; Rhus toxicodenedron; Toxicodendron quercifolium (poisonous shrub of southeastern United States causing a rash on contact)
Rhus diversiloba; Toxicodendron diversilobum; western poison oak (poisonous shrub of the Pacific coast of North America that causes a rash on contact)
markweed; poison ivy; poison mercury; poison oak; Rhus radicans; Toxicodendron radicans (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)
poison ash; poison dogwood; poison sumac; Rhus vernix; Toxicodendron vernix (smooth American swamp shrub with pinnate leaves and greenish flowers followed by greenish white berries; yields an irritating oil)
American holly; Christmas holly (an evergreen tree)
common snowberry; snowberry; Symphoricarpos alba; waxberry (deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries)
climbing lily; creeping lily; gloriosa; Gloriosa superba; glory lily (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)
Nerium oleander; oleander; rose bay (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)
dogbane (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)
hellebore (any plant of the Eurasian genus Helleborus)
baneberry; cohosh; herb Christopher (a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries)
aconite (any of various usually poisonous plants of the genus Aconitum having tuberous roots and palmately lobed leaves and blue or white flowers)
