Synonym: deadly, destructive, harmful, malignant, noxious, toxic, venomous. Similar words: poison, monotonously, monotonous, sonorous, gluttonous, cacophonous, poise, porpoise. Meaning: ['pɔɪznəs] adj. 1. having the qualities or effects of a poison 2. not safe to eat 3. marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful.
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91, My father would not touch the stuff, he said it might be poisonous.
92, The poisonous snakes invite a certain deference, and the rattlesnake is even canned occasionally for human consumption.
93, If there is evidence or suspicion of drugs or poisonous substances having been taken.
94, Zinc, like copper or lead, is poisonous to plants, but some have genes able to deal with it.
95, Carbon monoxide Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas which, when inhaled, limits the body's capacity to absorb oxygen.
96, For example, the pollen of modified crops had already been shown to be poisonous to monarch butterfly larvae.
97, Butterflies and moths are among the most beautiful insects and one does not expect them to be venomous or poisonous.
98, Carbon monoxide is present in all cigarette smoke and is also the poisonous gas in car exhausts.
99, It was later determined that Burke had inhaled poisonous fumes.
100, In popular mythology poisonous snakes are always ready and waiting for the chance to strike out and kill their attackers.
101, Drivers whose vehicles give off more poisonous chemicals than are allowed have ten days to clean up their act.
102, Deadly nightshade, laburnum and curare are all extremely poisonous and peppermint oil can cause gastric ulcers.
102, Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.
103, By then the influence of anaerobic decomposition and poisonous gases will have become obvious.
104, Yeast cells struggling to survive under suffocating conditions quickly excrete the ethanol fragments because they are basically poisonous.
105, By masquerading as poisonous insects, they avoid attacks from birds that might otherwise eat them.
106, The berries were poisonous and a notice to this effect was attached to the bush.
107, The herrings and preservative had reacted together and produced a chemical which was poisonous to mink.
108, The Yew tree is one of the most poisonous plants in the countryside.
109, Many edible species of butterfly gain protection by resembling noxious or poisonous species.
110, An average car emits five lungfuls of poisonous carbon monoxide gas per mile. Carbon monoxide is also a powerful greenhouse gas.
111, And for children, there are even more hazards: from ponds to poisonous plants and chemicals.
112, Forest Goblin Shamans keep small poisonous spiders in their mouths.
113, And as they use more plastic, chemicals and metals, so what they discard becomes increasingly durable and potentially poisonous.
114, The poor world has great potential in this respect, including some 2,000 divisions of poisonous plants which might become pest killers.
115, The blood of the creature was highly poisonous, so the hero dipped his arrows into it.
116, It's quite clear that the influence of soul music in pop has become poisonous, repressive, grey and total.
117, They employ their poisonous saliva primarily as a weapon against their prey.
118, Central can't film here because since these photographs were taken the air's become too poisonous to breath.
119, It was a complimentary bottle, sent over at Gwen's instigation, therefore unlikely to be actually poisonous.
120, Remember, even a small fire can fill your home with dense and poisonous smoke in a couple of minutes.
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