| poison pill | the target company defends itself by making its stock less attractive to an acquirer |
| South American poison toad | a South American toad |
kitchen garden
vegetable garden
vegetable patch | a small garden where vegetables are grown |
| poison | anything that harms or destroys, the poison of fascism |
petite marmite
minestrone
vegetable soup | soup made with a variety of vegetables |
vegetable oil
oil | any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants |
vegetable
veggie
veg | edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant |
julienne
julienne vegetable | a vegetable cut into thin strips (usually used as a garnish) |
raw vegetable
rabbit food | an uncooked vegetable |
greens
green
leafy vegetable | any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables |
| solanaceous vegetable | any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae, especially of the genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersicon |
| root vegetable | any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers |
| cruciferous vegetable | a vegetable of the mustard family: especially mustard greens, various cabbages, broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts |
marrow
vegetable marrow | large elongated squash with creamy to deep green skins |
oyster plant
vegetable oyster | long white salsify |
darling pea
poison bush | either of two Australian plants of the genus Swainsona that are poisonous to sheep |
winter sweet poison arrow plant
Acocanthera oblongifolia
Acocanthera spectabilis | medium-sized shrubby tree of South Africa having thick leathery evergreen leaves and white or pink flowers and globose usually two-seeded purplish black fruits |
bushman's poison
ordeal tree
Acocanthera oppositifolia
Acocanthera venenata | evergreen shrub or tree of South Africa |
| vegetable sheep sheep plant Haastia pulvinaris | cushion-forming New Zealand herb having leaves densely covered with tawny hairs |
sheep plant vegetable sheep Raoulia lutescens
Raoulia australis | perennial prostrate mat-forming herb with hoary woolly foliage |
salsify
oyster plant
vegetable oyster
Tragopogon porrifolius | Mediterranean biennial herb with long-stemmed heads of purple ray flowers and milky sap and long edible root, naturalized throughout United States |
marrow
marrow squash
vegetable marrow | any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh |
cocozelle
Italian vegetable marrow | squash plant having dark green fruit with skin mottled with light green or yellow |
loofah
vegetable sponge
Luffa cylindrica | the loofah climber that has cylindrical fruit |
| vegetable | any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower |
fly poison
Amianthum muscaetoxicum
Amianthum muscitoxicum | all parts of plant are highly toxic, bulb pounded and used as a fly poison, sometimes placed in subfamily Melanthiaceae |
poison camas
Zigadenus nuttalli | a common perennial death camas, Tennessee to Kansas to Texas |
| poison bush poison pea gastrolobium | any of various Australian evergreen shrubs of the genus Gastrolobium having whorled compound leaves poisonous to livestock and showy yellow to deep reddish-orange flowers followed by two-seeded pods |
scarlet wisteria tree
vegetable hummingbird
Sesbania grandiflora | a softwood tree with lax racemes of usually red or pink flowers, tropical Australia and Asia, naturalized in southern Florida and West Indies |
ivory nut
vegetable ivory
apple nut | nutlike seed of a South American palm, the hard white shell takes a high polish and is used for e.g. buttons |
poison ash
poison dogwood
poison sumac
Toxicodendron vernix
Rhus vernix | smooth American swamp shrub with pinnate leaves and greenish flowers followed by greenish white berries, yields an irritating oil |
poison ivy
markweed
poison mercury
poison oak Toxicodendron radicans
Rhus 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 |
western poison oak
Toxicodendron diversilobum
Rhus diversiloba | poisonous shrub of the Pacific coast of North America that causes a rash on contact |
eastern poison oak
Toxicodendron quercifolium
Rhus quercifolia
Rhus toxicodenedron | poisonous shrub of southeastern United States causing a rash on contact |
black nightshade
common nightshade
poisonberry
poison-berry
Solanum nigrum | Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible |
hemlock poison hemlock
poison parsley
California fern
Nebraska fern
winter fern
Conium maculatum | 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 |
poison milkweed
horsetail milkweed
Asclepias subverticillata | milkweed of southwestern United States and Mexico, poisonous to livestock |
| poison ivy | dermatitis resulting from contact with the poison ivy plant, my poison ivy is drying up |
| poison oak | dermatitis resulting from contact with a poison oak plant |
| poison sumac | dermatitis resulting from contact with a poison sumac plant |
kapok
silk cotton
vegetable silk | a plant fiber from the kapok tree, used for stuffing and insulation |
| poison gas | a gas that is poisonous to breath or contact, used in chemical warfare |
poison
toxicant
poisonous substance | any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism |
plant toxin
phytotoxin | any substance produced by plants that is similar in its properties to extracellular bacterial toxin |
| vegetable tallow | a waxy fat obtained from certain plants (e.g. bayberry) and used as tallow |
| vegetable wax | a waxy substance obtained from plants (especially from the trunks of certain palms) |
| vegetable matter | matter produced by plants or growing in the manner of a plant |
| poison | administer poison to, She poisoned her husband but he did not die |
poison
envenom | add poison to, Her husband poisoned her drink in order to kill her |
| poison | kill with poison, She poisoned her husband |