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ub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara.

manthus, of the Amaryllis family. The juice of H. toxicarius is used by the Hottentots to poison their arrows.

or cap composed of a multitude of fine separate tubes. A few are edible, and others very poisonous.

ican tree snake (Bucephalus Capensis). Although considered venomous by natives, it has no poison fangs.

A Brazilian tribe of Indians, noted for their use of poisons; - - also called Aymborés.

Poisoning induced by large doses of bromine and iodine or of their compounds.

A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood.

A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood. --Ca*chæ"mic, Ca*che"mic (#), a.

The mendole; a small worthless Mediterranean fish considered poisonous by the ancients. See Mendole.

Alkarsin; a colorless, poisonous, arsenical liquid, As2(CH3)4, spontaneously inflammable and possessing an intensely disagreeable odor. It is the type of a series of compounds analogous to the nitrogen compounds called hydrazines. [Written also cacodyle, and kakodyl.]

cesses of decomposition in dead animal bodies, and thought by some to be the cause of the poisonous effects produced by the bodies. See Ptomaine.

also, the root of the South American Chiococca anguifuga, a celebrated antidote for snake poison.

imbing legumious plant (Physostigma venenosum), a native of tropical Africa. It is highly poisonous. It is used to produce contraction of the pupil of the eye; also in tetanus, neuralgia, and rheumatic diseases; -- called also ordeal bean, being used by the negroes in trials for witchcraft.

A plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus bacciferus), bearing berries regarded as poisonous. Bladder campion, a plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus Behen or Silene inflata), having a much inflated calyx. See Behen. -- Rose campion, a garden plant (Lychnis coronaria) with handsome crimsome crimson flowers.…

A condiment made from the sap of the bitter cassava (Manihot utilissima) deprived of its poisonous qualities, concentrated by boiling, and flavored with aromatics. See Pepper pot.

A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper.

al species of mushroom, of which one (Cantharellus cibrius) is edible, the others reputed poisonous.

olor of its salts, It is a coloriess crystalline substance, and acts as an acrid narcotic poison. It is identical with sanguinarine.

Cherry laurel (Bot.), an evergren shrub (Prunus Lauro-cerasus) common in shrubberies, the poisonous leaves of which have a flavor like that of bitter almonds. -- Cherry pepper (Bot.), a species of Capsicum (C. cerasiforme), with small, scarlet, intensely piquant cherry-shaped fruit. -- Cherry pit. (a) A child's play,…

aterally to each segment; well developed jaws; and a pair of thoracic legs converted into poison fangs. They are insectivorous, very active, and some species grow to the length of a foot.