POISONOUS PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poisonous plant mean? 

• POISONOUS PLANT (noun)
  The noun POISONOUS PLANT has 1 sense:

1. a plant that when touched or ingested in sufficient quantity can be harmful or fatal to an organism

  Familiarity information: POISONOUS PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POISONOUS PLANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plant that when touched or ingested in sufficient quantity can be harmful or fatal to an organism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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"):

Rhus diversiloba; Toxicodendron diversilobum; western poison oak (poisonous shrub of the Pacific coast of North America that causes a rash on contact)

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)

aconite (any of various usually poisonous plants of the genus Aconitum having tuberous roots and palmately lobed leaves and blue or white flowers)

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)