单词 | poisonless |
释义 | poisonlessadj. Not poisonous, free from poison; without venom. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > [adjective] > harmless to health > specific windless1562 unulcerate1583 poisonless1608 indolent1663 unsuffocative1822 unsuppurative1822 unpoisoned1860 non-irritant1869 incorrosive1871 non-irritating1871 unulcerated1879 non-allergic1936 hypo-allergenic1953 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 272 Their [sc. English spiders'] byting is poysonlesse. 1654 W. Jenkyn Funeral Serm. 11 Not only poisonlesse but wholsome. 1865 J. H. Hanson Handbk. Lat. Poetry 567 The ancients thought the serpent was poisonless during the winter, and acquired its venom from the food it ate on reviving in spring. 1895 C. F. Nichols in Rev. of Rev. Mar. 292 A commune..would require..to be poisonless, at least with regard to virulent..disease. 1940 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 5 176 The banana fruit... Sweet, very cold, poisonless. 1999 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Nexis) 28 May 4 e Something is lacking in the frogs' diet in captivity that renders them poisonless. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1608 |
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