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ˈpoisonwood
a. Name for certain poisonous species of Rhus, as R. venenata, the Poison-sumac of N. America, and R. Metopium of the West Indies.
b. Sebastiania lucida (family Euphorbiaceæ), of the West Indies. Also attrib.
1721Dudley in Phil. Trans. XXXI. 145 The Poyson-Wood-Tree grows only in Swamps, or low wet Grounds, and..is by some called the Swamp Sumach. Ibid. 146 The Poyson-Wood..has this effect only on some particular Persons and Constitutions. 1730Mortimer ibid. XXXVI. 430 Toxicodendron, foliis alatis,..the Poison Wood. This Tree distills a Liquid, black like Ink, which the Inhabitants say is Poison. 1884Miller Plant-n., Poisonwood, W. Indian, Sebastiania lucida. 1930R. Macaulay Staying with Relations ix. 127 There..was..the nettle that one chews when one has inadvertently been spattered by the milky juice of the poison⁓wood tree. 1965F. Knebel Night of Camp David xv. 248 A crescent moon perched above the thicket of gumbo limbo and poisonwood trees. |