poison pill | the target company defends itself by making its stock less attractive to an acquirer |
arterial blood gases | measurement of the pH level and the oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations in arterial blood, important in diagnosis of many respiratory diseases |
South American poison toad | a South American toad |
poison | anything that harms or destroys, the poison of fascism |
kinetic theory kinetic theory of gases | (physics) a theory that gases consist of small particles in random motion |
toxic waste dump toxic waste site toxic dumpsite | a location where toxic wastes can be or have been disposed of (often illegally) |
toxic site toxic waste area Superfund site | a site where toxic wastes have been dumped and the Environmental Protection Agency has designated them to be cleaned up |
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 |
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 |
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 |
toxic shock toxic shock syndrome TSS | syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus, characterized by fever and diarrhea and nausea and diffuse erythema and shock, occurs especially in menstruating women using highly absorbent tampons |
poisoning toxic condition intoxication | the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance |
toxic waste toxic industrial waste | poisonous waste materials, can cause injury (especially by chemical means) |
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 |
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 |
poison | kill by its poison, This mushrooms can poison |
poison | spoil as if by poison, poison someone's mind, poison the atmosphere in the office |
toxic | of or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison, suffering from exposure to toxic substances |