Usually means: Harmful when ingested, inhaled, contacted.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. poisonous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. poisonous: Merriam-Webster
  3. poisonous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. poisonous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. poisonous: Collins English Dictionary
  6. poisonous: Vocabulary.com
  7. Poisonous, poisonous: Wordnik
  8. poisonous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. poisonous: Wiktionary
  10. poisonous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. poisonous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. poisonous: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. poisonous: Dictionary.com
  14. poisonous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Poisonous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Poisonous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. poisonous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. poisonous: Rhymezone
  19. Poisonous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. poisonous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. poisonous: FreeDictionary.org
  22. poisonous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. poisonous: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. poisonous: Legal dictionary

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  1. poisonous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. poisonous: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. poisonous: Medical dictionary

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  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. poisonous: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See poisonously as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Containing sufficient poison to be dangerous to touch or ingest.
adjective:  Of an animal such as a snake or spider, or parts of its body: producing a toxin intended for defensive or offensive use which is usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging; hence, of a bite or sting: injecting poison.
adjective:  (figuratively) Negative, harmful.

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