POISON MEANING IN FRENCH

Definition & Synonyms

• Poison

1. (n.) Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases.
2. (n.) To injure or kill by poison; to administer poison to.
3. (n.) To taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons happiness; slander poisoned his mind.
4. (n.) That which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as, the poison of evil example; the poison of sin.
5. (n.) To put poison upon or into; to infect with poison; as, to poison an arrow; to poison food or drink.
6. (v. i.) To act as, or convey, a poison.

• Poison cup

1. () A cup containing poison.
2. () A cup that was supposed to break on having poison put into it.

• Poison bush

1. () The plant Myoporum deserti, often distinguished as Ellangowan poison bush or dogwood poison bush.
2. () The ulmaceous plant Trema cannabina, which, though not poisonous, is injurious to stock because of its large amount of fiber.
3. () Any fabaceous shrub of the genus Gastrolobium, the herbage of which is poisonous to stock; also, any species of several related genera, as Oxylobium, Gompholobium, etc.