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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Capable of harming or killing by or as if by poison; toxic or venomous.
  2. adj. Containing a poison.
  3. adj. Marked by apparent ill will: "poisonous hate . . . in his eyes” ( Ernest Hemingway).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having the properties of a poison; containing poison; venomous; hence, corrupting, vitiating, or impairing.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Containing sufficient poison to be dangerous
  2. adj. of an animal Inedible due to containing poison; poisonous to eat

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Having the qualities or effects of poison; venomous; baneful; corrupting; noxious.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. not safe to eat
  2. adj. marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful
  3. adj. having the qualities or effects of a poison

Etymologies

  1. From poison +‎ -ous (Wiktionary)

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