Definition: 1. Having the qualities or effects of a poison. 2. Not safe to eat. 3. Marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful.
Use 'poisonous' in a sentence:
1. Some poisonous substances are flowing into the rivers that are sources of our drinking water.
2. Some plants are poisonous and should be handled with care.
3. When a gecko meets with a scorpion1, the gecko will always provoke the scorpion that has no eyesight with its tail. Angered by the provocation2, the scorpion will sting the gecko with the poisonous sting of its tail.
4. Soon Chinese Internet users, including government agencies, were decrying the' poisonous panda.
5. A 66-year-old Florida mailman doing his rounds was bitten by a poisonous snake when he put mail inside a mailbox.
6. Rat snakes aren't poisonous or a threat to people generally.
7. The downy mildews of medical and poisonous plants in Xinjiang grassland were systematically classified.
8. Poisonous chemicals got into the water supply.
9. The weather was positively poisonous.
10. Poisonous gas closed in on the town.
11. Lead poisonous has proved more difficult to deal with ．
12. Some snakes are poisonous, and this causes people's death.
13. However, the poisonous snakes are only a small number.
14. Imagine what these poisonous substances can do to your own body.
15. It is dangerous to inhale poisonous gas.
16. These chemicals can emanate certain poisonous gases.
17. Ok, venomous snakes are the ones that secrete poisonous substances or venom, like the snakes of the viper family or cobras.
18. Victims may be exposed to poisonous or radioactive minerals.
19. The process allows many poisonous substances to escape into the environment.
20. The poisonous heavy metal is one of the major pollutants.
21. A lot of poisonous waste water comes from that chemical factory.
22. Gasoline still contains lead, which is extremely poisonous to humans.
23. The leaves of yew trees are poisonous to cattle.
24. Active carbon adsorbs poisonous gases and impurities in liquids.
25. Though there are more eatable plants, there may also be wild animals, poisonous snakes, and other hazards.
26. The sting of a scorpion is poisonous.
27. Poisonous smoke had got into the water supply.
28. They can be poisonous if ingested and have fatal consequences. Reckitt Benckiser, maker of the best-selling disinfectant Lysol, warned that its product should "under no circumstance" be injected or ingested. The president of the American Medical Association also joined in the chorus of concern regarding President Trump's comments.
29. "No one expected Venus to be the poisonous hell that it is, or Mars to have the river valleys that it does," he said.
30. In the darkness, she did not see it. It was a poisonous snake whose tail was caught in the trap.
31. The bright red color of a fire urchin warns predators that its spines are poisonous. Sea otters are the major predators of sea urchins.
32. I had a frightening encounter with a poisonous snake.
33. A kind of simplified method calculating poisonous gas content in blasting product.
34. Considered poisonous for many years in Europe, tomatoes were grown for decoration only.
35. Burning sulphur creates poisonous fumes.
36. Even when the machines are recycled and the harmful metals removed, the recycling process often is carried out in poor countries, in practically uncontrolled ways which allow many poisonous substances to escape into the environment.
37. If she had been aware that the mushroom was poisonous, she wouldn't have picked it for dinner.
38. Some mushrooms are good to eat; some are poisonous.
39. We all went to the emergency room in a mad rush, and had our stomachers pumped after telling them we had eaten poisonous mushrooms.
40. Our cars pump out thousands of tonnes of poisonous fumes every year.
41. Industrial waste is even more harmful since there are many highly poisonous materials in it, such as copper and lead.
42. There will be little respite from the dense data smog, which some researchers fear may be poisonous.
43. There are hundreds of poisonous spiders and snakes.
44. In remote regions, the air is pure and the crops are free of poisonous insecticides.
45. If plastic and rubber are burnt, they'll give off poisonous gases.
46. There's absolutely no regulation of cigarettes to make sure that they don't include poisonous substances.
47. Electronic wastes also contain many poisonous metals.
48. This gas is highly poisonous.
49. The leaves of certain trees are poisonous to cattle.
50. Snake venom is a mixture of proteins, some toxic, poisonous, and some not.
51. All parts of the yew tree are poisonous, including the berries.
