| 单词 | rat poison |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrat poison rat poison n. (a) poison for killing rats; a substance of this kind; †(b) the ratsbane plant of West Africa, Dichapetalum toxicarium (see ratsbane n. 2b) (obsolete rare).Sense (b) is apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > rat-poison ratton-bread1394 ratsbane1488 ratton bane?1543 ratton poison1590 rat poison1674 raticide1847 rodenticide1903 ANTU1945 1674 W. Cunningham Diary 7 Mar. (1887) 33 Sent to Glasgow to buy ratt poison. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 1296 A pot of..rat poison. 1848 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Rat-poison, the common name of the plant Chailletia toxicaria, a poisonous shrub, a native of Sierra Leone. 1998 S. Fried Bitter Pills ii. vii. 130 What they all had in common was their hair-removing cream—which turned out to contain thallium, a deadly rat poison. < as lemmas |
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