POISON GAS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poison gas mean? 

• POISON GAS (noun)
  The noun POISON GAS has 1 sense:

1. a gas that is poisonous to breath or contact; used in chemical warfare

  Familiarity information: POISON GAS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POISON GAS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A gas that is poisonous to breath or contact; used in chemical warfare

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("poison gas" is a kind of...):

chemical weapon (chemical substances that can be delivered using munitions and dispersal devices to cause death or severe harm to people and animals and plants)

gas (a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poison gas"):

blistering agent; dichloroethyl sulfide; mustard agent; mustard gas; sulfur mustard (a toxic war gas with sulfide based compounds that raises blisters and attacks the eyes and lungs; there is no known antidote)

nerve agent; nerve gas (a toxic gas that is inhaled or absorbed through the skin and has harmful effects on the nervous and respiratory system)