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Sentence Examples Adding silage effluent to slurry greatly increases the level of poisonous hydrogen sulphide gas produced. A snake or poisonous spider bites in a single spot, but the box jelly's venom enters a victim's body over a very large area. The roots of the cassava plant contain linamarin, a cyanogen which produces the poisonous chemical cyanide when eaten. They made clay containers filled with little flying insects that had poisonous stings, which were then fired off. It lurked in air like a poisonous cloud, making everyone feel uneasy and uptight. The ripe potato contains traces of solanine but its flowers, green leaves and sprouts contain higher levels of this toxin and are very poisonous. After two hours all he's got is a tiddler bream and a silver trevally with poisonous spines. But the poisonous atmosphere is unlikely to help the trusts perform any better. The US, because we are wealthy and powerful, is going to be slandered as a poisonous cultural wasteland. Smoke from factories, gasoline fumes from automobiles and poisonous chemical gases combine to form a pernicious soup in the air. The Europeans were not open to trying tomatoes, as a lot of members of the nightshade family are poisonous. Used in shamanism, witchcraft, and even poisonous murder, nightshades have a history of both mystical danger and scientific caution. As it is, the potato belongs to the botanical family, Solanacea, to which poisonous plants like the nightshade belong. Mark Malloch Brown claims that the atmosphere is growing poisonous as insiders in the UN's headquarters in New York attempt to stall reform. Occasionally, they would take to the air to kill people with their knifelike talons and blight the crops with poisonous excrement. A number of parents will not take their children to the games because of the poisonous atmosphere. The atmosphere became so poisonous and paranoid and mixed up that towards the end neither Simpson nor Yates was really talking to me. The dragon has wounded him, and his poisonous venom is killing the brave Beowulf. The area abounded with poisonous snakes and insects, and I was continually amazed that none of the other children was bitten. There will be some books on spotting bird species, and, if abroad, a rather worrying one on identifying poisonous insects and arachnids. Show More Sentences At levels higher than this, the poisonous gas will start to degrade the olfactory nerves, making it impossible to smell. Such old wives' tales as the caps of edible fungi peeling easily, or brightly coloured fungi being poisonous, cannot be relied upon. There are many inedible poisonous mushrooms out there to be mistaken for edible ones. Lower in status were the scorpion-charmers, who used magic to rid an area of poisonous reptiles and insects. Would-be pickers should be wary of traditional rules for separating edible fungi from poisonous varieties. Looking closer she realised with horror that it was a snake, it was a poisonous viper. Many clematis are high in poisonous alkaloids, this may also be true of virgin's bower and sweet autumn clematis. The power of the heart, already grown virtueless and thin, distills poisonous clammy vapours which emerge from the head. While the plant is poisonous, the expressed thick, viscid oil is used as a powerful laxative and purgative. Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas that is odourless, colourless, tasteless and non-irritating. No, he likes the light here real good, but the puff adder is animal that has the longest fangs amongst any poisonous snake in the world. Other heavy metals, such as cadmium, were not recognized as poisonous until the early nineteenth century. Deia's stepmom emerged underneath the staircase with a stack of neatly folded clothes and shot Vaius a look of dislike and poisonous curiosity. In nature, physostigmine is found in Calabar beans, poisonous beans that grow in West Africa. These plants are poisonous to livestock, causing a toxic syndrome known as blind staggers. I've been to Darwin and there's nothing there but poisonous spiders and snakes, so this man must be bored out of his head. The reason for avoiding consumption of the rest of the body is unclear, but may be related to poisonous excretions from the skin of frogs. In case the Regent's Park buildings should be involved in an air raid, all the poisonous insects and snakes have been destroyed. In the 19th century, underground coal miners carried canaries down into the shafts as their first line of defense against poisonous gases. Most villagers show symptoms such as skin cankers as a result of breathing the poisonous air or drinking the polluted water over a long period. Show More Sentences Venomous fish should not be confused with poisonous species, such as the infamous puffer fish, which harbor colonies of toxin-producing bacteria. The fruits are rounded, leathery 1-to 2-inch capsules containing one to three large poisonous seeds. Whatever Shariah has declared as haram is as unsafe as poison, although its poisonous consequences will be apparent in the Hereafter. Sea snakes are among the most poisonous creatures in the coral reef areas, described by scientists to rival a cobra. They are also taught which animals to avoid like poisonous snakes, though they sometimes must learn on their own the hard way. The tropical climate can be uncomfortable and brings the inevitable insects and poisonous creatures. Dangerous and wild animals, like poisonous snakes and stinging ants, inhabited their rain forests. From now on, special licences will be needed to own potentially dangerous pets, such as snakes or poisonous spiders. Their eggs are large, green, and poisonous to warm-blooded vertebrates, including humans. There are no medical records anywhere in the world where people live with poisonous substances in their bodies. From her wasted and emaciated appearance, we may fairly infer, she also fell a martyr to this destructive and poisonous liquid. At least one other kind of fern is immediately poisonous, so such plants are not to be tasted at random. Mr Jordan brushed against the tiny yet extremely poisonous jellyfish swimming near Hamilton Island in northern Queensland on Wednesday. Man-eating saltwater crocodiles lurk in nearby estuaries along with the deadly box jellyfish, the most poisonous creature on earth. Hopefully we won't be maimed by saltwater crocodiles, eaten by sharks, or stung by poisonous jellyfish. The quills are not poisonous, the wound becomes septic simply because of the dirt on the quills, and bacteria always thrive where there is dirt. Eating, for example, offers an avenue for ingesting tainted or poisonous food resulting in serious illness or death. The herbal medicines for external application are generally erosive and poisonous, and their dosages should be strictly handled. This would allow for the use of a variety of familiar medicinal herbs, including poisonous plants like aconite. Saturn also rules over many of the herbs that are potentially poisonous or toxic. Show More Sentences Four teenagers consumed hallucinogenic and poisonous jimson weed Thursday night and were hospitalized with fast heartbeats and impaired vision. These junkyards have to be removed as poisonous chemicals and substances flow into the river and the lake through these places. Something laughed outside the door, a poisonous sound that suddenly jogged his memory and mind. The only poisonous fish regularly found around UK shores is the weever fish. Frogs, toads, lizards and foot-long slow worms are common in the area, as well as poisonous adders. Although the yellow-flowered ragwort is an attractive-looking plant, it is poisonous to animals and can cause skin reactions in people. The police sent the viscera of the woman for chemical examination to find out if the death was caused by some poisonous substance. Alcohol, or ethanol, to give it its chemical name, creates a poisonous substance called acetaldehyde. In Florida, more people are probably bitten by pigmy rattlesnakes than by any other poisonous snake. The American courts for criminal procedure have stuck to a strong tradition of oppressing the fruits of the poisonous trees. Clustered among the turning leaves were bilberries, cranberries, bog whortleberries, cloudberries and a dozen others, edible and poisonous. She recollected her childhood memory of an encounter with a poisonous snake. Would you rather be bitten by a poisonous snake or constricted by a python? They exhaled a poisonous fume that could kill someone if they inhaled too much of it. What it referred to was a rumour that has been flying around the divided and sometimes poisonous world of Irish equestrianism. Remove all poisonous indoor plants and replace with pots of grass, alfalfa or catnip. Widely cultivated ornamental, but poisonous flowering shrub with evergreen leaves and clusters of fragrant pinkish or red flowers. Mosquitoes, poisonous snakes and tropical diseases such as yellow fever and typhoid caused many to succumb. Rev Snuggs claimed just three of the yew tree's poisonous berries would be enough to kill a child. I had read that dumb canes can be poisonous to pets, but my cat seems to prefer fake Christmas tree branches. Show More Sentences This is from where, on the night of December 3, 1984, tons of poisonous gas leaked. A young man and teenage girl have died after poisonous fumes leaked from a gas boiler. He further alleged that her in-laws made his sister drink milk laced with some poisonous substance. A prime example is Laetrile, a useless and poisonous drug promoted for cancer treatment. She knew that the parasites were neither lethally poisonous nor big enough to do any real damage. According to Lenin, as a consequence, the families are surviving on poisonous grass and wild mushrooms for the last four years. The rising waters can also displace poisonous snakes and make mosquito populations explode. Artillery guns were also used to fire gas shells to deliver poisonous gas onto the enemy. Listening done, Ky walked to a slightly less poisonous tavern and got herself roaring drunk. The chord changes aren't rocket science, but the rhythms are fast and the fills are rare, quick and poisonous. So dinosaurs died from allergic reactions to these new, poisonous intruders. All living organisms, including humans, are constantly exposed to foreign substances and poisonous chemicals or toxins. Although the vile black substance is poisonous to all moving and breathing things, it is very beneficial to plants. Older brothers or sisters should be supervised when around a baby to stop them feeding tablets or other poisonous substances to the baby. In other words, we eat vegetables and fruits in order to detoxicate poisonous substances. As she lived and worked in the rainforest of Ecuador, she had to look out for poisonous snakes, insects and plants. When disturbed, weevers erect a dark-colored and highly venomous dorsal spine, while pufferfishes, also poisonous, puff up into a ball of spikes. Why are some so poisonous to us, but not to the deer or squirrels who eat them? The hemlock of the title refers to the evergreen tree, rather than to the poisonous herb that was the means of Socrates' forced suicide. Detoxification once referred to the process of removing some specific poisonous substance from the body. Show More Sentences Heavy metals are metallic elements that have a high atomic number and are poisonous to living organisms. The only poisonous lizards are the Gila monster and the beaded lizard, both of which live in the desserts of Mexico and Arizona. The taipan, is the world's most poisonous snake and also lives in this unforgiving land. This newspaper has learned that the poisonous sand coloured Weever fish has arrived in local waters as a result of global warming. It could be, and it's a doctrine that John knows well, the fruit of the poisonous tree. Travellers, short on water rations, have died drinking the milky sap of its poisonous foliage. He also advised parents to lock up all detergents and poisonous substances, together with matches, lighters, pitch oil, guns and ammunition. He claims none of the volunteers had any idea they were going to have the poisonous nerve gas sarin tested on them. With the introduction of wood preservatives, a garden fence will last many years longer than before these poisonous chemicals were invented. For example, the poisonous plant deadly nightshade, also known as Belladonna, causes a throbbing headache, high temperature and bright red face. Apparently parents emit poisonous substances which contaminate their kids in much the same way that humans pollute the environment. While on the beach, keep a lookout for manchineel trees because the fruit and sap is highly poisonous. However, manchineel is planted as a common shade tree in the Virgin Islands, which makes one wonder just how poisonous it really is! The firefish is feared by marine creatures and humans alike, due to its poisonous dorsal spines. They produce antibiotics known as bacteriocins that are poisonous to their own species. This means doing it as Mother Nature intended without the aid of poisonous chemicals and insecticides. A few yards away, a South African officer has found one of the small but highly poisonous scorpions which infest the area. At the end, the Indian heroine commits suicide by biting a poisonous datura flower because her British lover is deserting her. Years earlier scientists had detected cyanogen, a poisonous gas, in the tail of a comet. Other imports include the poisonous corncockle from the Mediterranean, the Himalayan balsam and the New Zealand willowherb, an aggressive weed. Show More Sentences An elderly man died from inhaling poisonous fumes as he tried to put out a fire at his home. If you suspect that someone has inhaled poisonous fumes, first assess the situation and your risk. Some wildlife enthusiasts are worried about the possible disappearance of the massasauga, the only poisonous snake in the state. Pure phosphorus is a non-metallic solid which exists in three forms, one of them highly poisonous and spontaneously inflammable. They are cousins of seashells, but instead of having a protective shell, most of them are poisonous. It is an industrial waste product, not a medicine, more poisonous than lead and only slightly less than arsenic. Students of a nearby school found poisonous organic matter in water samples they studied. What can he say about the FDA, an agency that keeps us safe from impure food and poisonous pharmaceuticals? I'm going to be impaled on a million poisonous needles and die a slow, agonizing death. Defeating the terrorists also means defeating their poisonous belief that peoples of different faiths and ethnic origins cannot coexist. After a decade of breathing the poisonous effluent of a coal-fired power plant in a Beijing suburb, residents had finally had enough. The only poisonous lizards are the Gila monster and the beaded lizard, both of which live in the deserts of Mexico and Arizona. Added to this would have been chemical consequences, the generation of poisonous hydrogen cyanide and nitrous oxide in the atmosphere. After the poisonous fumes from the factory blurred his vision and life two decades ago, the tailor in Nawab Nagar became a mendicant. Sluggish, heavily polluted and evil smelling, it snaked through the borough like a poisonous serpent. Cayenne pepper, which easily loses its red colour, was tinted with cinnabar, an extremely poisonous mercury compound. The apotheosis of the sushi chef's art is the preparation of the highly poisonous fugu fish. The darts, sharpened at one end, are dipped in the poisonous sap of the curare tree to produce an anaesthetic effect upon the victim. And belladonna in higher doses is poisonous, and was employed by poisoners over the centuries. Coffee is regularly contaminated with unappetising detritus ranging from floor sweepings and twigs to poisonous, mouldy coffee beans. Show More Sentences Hellebore Known as Christmas rose, a poisonous plant used as a purgative, in the treatment of dropsy and as an abortifacient. Some waste materials that are highly poisonous are considered toxic wastes. His hope is that a dose of poisonous curare followed quickly by the antidote will reverse the ongoing paralysis of his limbs. They are visually poisonous, depressing, environmentally undermining, life-shortening, spiritually deadening, brain-dulling piles of crud. Here and there lurks the rare and extremely poisonous cowbane, a treacherous relative to carrots and parsley. My medical training exposed me to what a mine, a bullet, a grenade, an artillery shell or poisonous gas could do to a body. The horse chestnut seed is poisonous to humans if eaten as a food, though the seeds are sometimes fed to horses and cattle as fodder. I've tried Fly agaric mushrooms in my misguided experimental phase, and they contain a lot of the things that are poisonous in datura. Isaacs gives us occasional glimpses of the man beneath all the poisonous bile. In that way they hoped to suppress what they thought were his poisonous ideas. They had all eaten poisonous mushrooms for supper, except the boy, who was denied supper as a punishment, because he had misbehaved. Unfortunately, he never did find the swamp, because the ground was alive with poisonous cottonmouth snakes and he didn't fancy getting bitten. The swamps are infested with poisonous snakes and fearsome insects with bites so strong they will either kill a man or drive him mad. In this state they contain small amounts of a poisonous alkaloid, and have a sickly, unpleasant smell and taste. We said we did not and he informed us the dead snake was a decidedly poisonous copperhead, a creature apparently known to travel in pairs. He talked at some length about how the atmosphere in D.C. was more poisonous than he had ever seen. The atmosphere surrounding this dispute has gradually changed from fraught to poisonous. Some homeopathic remedies derived from substances that would be poisonous in large amounts, such as arsenic or strychnine, could be banned. A recently discovered intertidal, poisonous species of the sun spider burrows just above the high tide. Exhaust from the automobile can contain carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides, which are poisonous gases. Show More Sentences Even exposure to relatively low levels of this highly poisonous gas can cause brain damage or death. After I'd had my fill of blowpipes, dripping foliage and poisonous frogs I flicked through to an article on peanut farming. It was, of course, a poisonous plant, hemlock, that gave Athens its state poison, used for the execution of Socrates. If attacked by parasitic flies that lay eggs in their bodies, they switch to a diet of poisonous hemlocks. The particular task assigned to these forces is to stir up everything backward and poisonous in the body politic. Although musk thistle is not poisonous, livestock will not graze near the plants and may refuse to enter heavily infested areas. If the cooked potato is left for hours being kept slightly warm, it becomes poisonous. On the other hand, many sour and bitter foods were either unhealthy or poisonous for early humans. The road twists vertiginously around sharp drop-offs, and nighttime is when poisonous fer-de-lance snakes slither across the road. The donation not only helped financially but it struck a blow at the poisonous communalism being stirred up by the government. Because they are poisonous, heavy metals are sometimes referred to as toxic metals. Be very cautious about growing poisonous plants, like castor bean or hellebore, in readily accessible areas. The crack was good natured throughout, a pleasing change from some of the poisonous atmospheres we have all witnessed whenever matches between historical rivals take place. Some of the more poisonous scorpions lived in the deserts of Egypt. The cunjevoi is a poisonous plant with inedible, reddish fruits. Other herbs, such as pinellia ternata, aconite and arisaema, are generally detoxified before use in various ways and are no longer considered poisonous. The stench of corruption is settling over world soccer like a poisonous fog, and players are paying the price. Witnesses say there were at least six bodies piled together inside this one tiled room where the air is poisonous with decay. He regretted that if such irresponsible, poisonous and aggressive speeches were not stopped, they would cause irreparable loss to the country's secular warp and woof. Let's all foul our little space around us and make everything yecchy and stinky and disgusting and wretched and dangerous and poisonous and radioactive. Show More Sentences Many gardens and parks contain poisonous plants such as yew and laburnum. Alcohol and sugar, even in moderate amounts, are not only sinful but poisonous. If they have been allowed to grow for long enough to produce an appreciable amount of toxin, the food is poisonous and remains so no matter how much it is heated. Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless, and poisonous gas that results from incomplete combustion of fuels such as natural or liquefied petroleum gas, oil, wood, and coal. He was a generally despicable character, always loitering near his betters like a poisonous cloud, seeking only to advance his own pathetic powers. In the basket is an asp, a very poisonous snake which kills painlessly. A clown enters her chamber before she is to be taken away by Caesar, bringing a basket of figs in which there is a poisonous asp which Cleopatra uses to kill herself. Instead of using poisonous glue you could nail it on or use a tacker. Primitive humans would have needed to avoid certain species of animals, as we do now, such as venomous snakes, poisonous frogs, tarantulas and wolves. The taste overwhelmed my mouth as if I had eaten poisonous chemicals. Pterois volitans are differentiated from other scorpionfishes by having 13 rather than 12 poisonous dorsal spines and 14 long, feather-like pectoral rays. Carbon dioxide, ammonia, methane, and several other gases normally poisonous to numerous Terran lifeforms became quite common in the pod's atmosphere. Instead, Kennedy took the punch-line for himself and applied the loud laughs he earned as an inoculation against a poisonous idea. Places where poisonous fumes belch from endless streams of cars. I have no idea what the effects of these poisonous plants would be if ingested, although I seem to recall that belladonna has hallucinogenic properties. Remedies vary in strength according to the needs of the patient, and sometimes according to the substance itself if it is particularly poisonous or toxic. It is a highly poisonous substance and as little as 30 millilitres is enough to kill a person, with 10 millilitres being enough to cause blindness. Insects mimic twigs and flower parts, the sexual partners or foods of their prey, whatever is poisonous to those for whom they themselves are prey. And behind that grinning face lay a treacherous, poisonous personality. It also helps to create a poisonous atmosphere of suspicion and mistrust. Show More Sentences Other organisms died off in large numbers because oxygen was poisonous to them. That said, this particularly retiring writer has received a poisonous gift from the Nobel committee. But a future of unreflective rightist and hyper-anti-culture religionists is a poisonous recipe. Both species of the solenodon of the West Indies also are poisonous. Unfortunately, the study also found that carbon dioxide-enhanced poison ivy boasts a stronger strain of urushiol, which may prove even more poisonous to humans. Hemlock, hellbane, fox glove, and nightshade as well as other dangerous and poisonous herbs rested in dried, fresh, and powdered form next to those very jars. He said burning insulated copper cable, plastics and tyres released into the air poisonous gasses like nitrogen dioxide, nitrogen monoxide and sulphur dioxide. The spider was a brown recluse, I think, which is very poisonous. Cobra attacks its prey by spitting poisonous venom called neurotoxin. He noted that bee venom could be poisonous to both animals and humans. Some vermicides are poisonous to people as well as the parasites. Certainly there is a corollary to this in the world of edible plants, where poisonous plants tend to be bitter, while edible plants and berries tend to be sweet. Also, apparently people thought that the bugs had poisonous stings and prophesied war. As the son of Chronos and the ocean nymph Philyra he was immortal, but he received a terrible, poisonous wound from an arrow which was shot by Hercules. The King Cobra or Hamadryad, is the largest of all poisonous snakes. In addition to this defensive poisonous sting, most stingarees have cryptic coloration, which acts as camouflage in the sandy or rocky bottom of their habitat. The hazards facing them include snakes, poisonous fish and fruit, reef sharks, moray eels, stingrays, fire coral, mosquitoes, bats, fire ants, rats and wild pigs. Even if the gas wasn't poisonous, the stink was still unpleasant. And who the heck was this beautiful, poisonous woman, for that matter? When ordered to do so, he obediently drank a cup of poisonous hemlock and calmly died, having declared that he did not fear death since he could not know it to be an evil. Show More Sentences Near Wauchop Creek they lost 900 sheep who had eaten poisonous herbage. But even when gastronomic curiosity overcomes fear, it can be disconcerting to discover that the most highly prized and delicious ones have poisonous lookalikes. A Leeds University professor has answered one of the big questions raised by the discovery that cooking food creates a poisonous substance called acrylamide. Despite all the poisonous hot air, Clarke failed to increase circulation. He emitted a pained hiss through a mouthful of blood, the type of noise a poisonous snake would make after being cloven in half by a farmer's spade. The first time he had drunk it he had been violently sick, then had fallen to the ground in a dead faint as the mildly poisonous root exploded through his system. Her hair was turned into a mass of poisonous snakes and her general appearance became so horrifying that anyone who looked upon her was petrified with terror. With visions of poisonous spiders and fanged monsters lurking in hollow trees creeping around in my brain, I tentatively put my hand into the hole. I thought at the time that the cartoon was the usual poisonous attempt to shift blame, but I'm coming round to the opinion that there was some merit in the cartoon after all. You set fire to it, then deeply inhale the smoky poisonous fumes. The egg-laying platypus of Australia is the world's most poisonous mammal. Externally it is very safe to use, but poisonous when taken internally. And some plants may transfer the poisonous chemicals to their food. If you have young children think twice before planting poisonous trees. A wayward camera does not help student wizards to catapult malevolent plants at poisonous mushrooms or send explosive cauldrons flying into barriers. Then it occurred to me that Tuscany was no more infested with nasty poisonous creatures than the peaceful county of Norththamptonshire, where I reside without any fear at all. Now, everyone knows the black snake is a poisonous creature. The media, staffers and politicians feed off this poisonous atmosphere in a building that contains some fine art and architecture, but no soul and no warmth. From its very first moments, Druick conjures up the poisonous atmosphere of a world ruled by fear and rumour where truth is merely the whim of an absolute monarch. The writer cited instances of guineas eating pests like grasshoppers and ticks, along with incidents of guineas killing poisonous copperheads and other snakes. Show More Sentences The atmosphere is poisonous, so she wears a gas mask as she works. It includes several edible species but also the notorious death cap and destroying angel, besides several species which are poisonous to a lesser extent. This fungus helps the fescue survive tough conditions but also produces many compounds that are poisonous to cattle if they graze on it continuously. The juice is used in emetics, but it's not poisonous really. Ragwort kills an estimated 500-1000 horses every year and by following the Code the risk of equines ingesting the poisonous plant will be minimised. Wondering how much effect going my counselling will have, as these days, my skin only really seems to erupt when I'm not processing poisonous stuff any other way. Buses with gasoline and diesel engines produce tons of exhaust gas every day containing many poisonous elements including carbon monoxide and lead. That poisonous sulfa drug killed 107 people, mostly children, before a horrified nation realized the nature and extent of the tragedy. Sea anemones' poisonous nematocysts have small trigger hairs on the tentacles' surface. The corrosive effect of the poisonous agent was an immediate cause of death. A PENSIONER with dementia has died in tragic circumstances after using poisonous stain remover to make coffees for himself and his wife. Such poisonous suspicions have only been deepened by the jailbreak. They are responsible for the poisonous properties of a number of the species. Chlordane is a chlorinated, highly poisonous, volatile oil formerly used as an insecticide. Residual graphite from a pencil stick is not poisonous, and graphite is harmless if consumed. Even Pennant, with all his repugnancy to the toad, could not be induced to favour the popular belief in its poisonous character. Such illegal evidence is known as the fruit of the poisonous tree and is normally not permitted at trial. The factory where she worked was a poisonous mass of incompetence, favoritism, and sabotage. Unlike many other Solanaceae species, they do not contain tropane alkaloids, which are often poisonous to humans and other animals. Children employed at glassworks were regularly burned and blinded, and those working at potteries were vulnerable to poisonous clay dust. Show More Sentences Only the liver was not used, as its high concentration of vitamin A is poisonous. He described stories of Slavs allegedly eating poisonous fungi without coming to any harm. They are neither lovable nor loving because they are innately poisonous or repulsive, like a pit adder or a skunk. While the Australian black, brown, copperhead, the death adder, and taipan snakes are all poisonous, the real troublemaker is the tiger snake. Fugu fferfish, fatal ed w, is the Japanese name for the poisonous pufferfish, which can be fatal if not prepared properly. Created in the Icelandic tradition of making the poisonous palatable by putrification, hakarl is an acquired taste. Providently, not all of these poisonous missives reached their targets in the cold light of next day's sobriety. The edibility of mushrooms depends on the absence of poisonous content and its desirable taste and aroma. Experts fear the gwyniad, a kind of herring, could be wiped out in Snowdonia's Llyn Tegid because of the growth of a poisonous algae in the lake. Some types of caterpillars are indeed poisonous or distasteful and their bright coloring is aposematic. In addition to their providing the nutrition to plants, excess fertilizers can be poisonous to the same plant. Heavy metals are metallic chemical elements that have a relatively high density and are toxic or poisonous at low concentrations. Even after the nation listened to his poisonous weasel words, the little gurrier was still trying to brazen it out to keep his job. House plants such as dieffenbachia should be avoided as these are poisonous for rabbits. Blue-ringed octopus, cone shells, stonefish, and firefish are other poisonous creatures presented. Very few lichens are poisonous, but those high in vulpinic acid or usnic acid are toxic. Protein-rich cottonseed is inedible because it contains a poisonous substance called gossypol. The leaves and latex have an acrid taste and are mildly poisonous to grazing animals. The seeds themselves are poisonous and bitter, but are opened and eaten by some bird species including hawfinches, greenfinches and great tits. The Death Cap extremely poisonous and in Europe 's responsible for 90 per cent of all ungus-related poisoning deaths. Show More Sentences His companions theorized that he collapsed and died through inhaling poisonous gases emitted from the volcano. If you are up for a luxury culinary adventure, then try the fugu sashimi, which is made from the flesh of the poisonous puffer fish. According to urban legend, the daddy longlegs is one of the most poisonous spiders around. The Norwegian scientists said the UVB filter octyl methoxycinnamate can be poisonous. Their old anti-union prejudices and instincts to demonise workers are as poisonous as ever in the unmodernised Conservatives. The reptiles stolen include a PS500 sunglow boa, two mildly poisonous hognose snakes and two blood pythons. Fire causes it to release poisonous gases like chlorine and nitrogen trichloride as well as cyanuric acid and carbon monoxide. Cyanide is a highly poisonous chemical, which can kill living creatures when exposed in minute quantities. In August, an Iraqi official disclosed that the ISIL used the poisonous mustard gas during withdrawal from Al-Anbar University. Some species, although not intensely poisonous, do affect the health of animals that swallow more than small amounts of the material. But even chocolate, which contains a stimulant, theobromine that's poisonous to dogs, can be fatal. The Slow Loris has giant eyes to hunt prey in the dark and is the only poisonous primate in the world. Another plant chemical, called diterpenoids occurring in Rhododendrons, were found to be poisonous to honeybees and a wild mining bee species. Among the most eye-catching was the siphonophore, the world's longest animal that can extend for up to 150ft, bristling with poisonous tentacles. Some slug pellets contain metaldehyde, which is poisonous to dogs, so always read the contents on the packaging. I had moved a clump of Marsh Marigolds that fateful afternoon, part of the buttercup family, some members of which are poisonous. Some mushrooms are edible and taste good, while others are poisonous and taste foul. Other poisonous frogs, like the redbelly toad, are brown and blend in with their surroundings. The digital display provides a visual read-out of levels of carbon monoxide, an odorless, colorless and poisonous gas. They are very poisonous, especially to children, and as far as I am aware there is no antivenom in Bahrain. Find more words! 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