Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of various species of Gastrolobium.
- noun The Swain-son pea. See
Swainsona . - noun A bird's-foot trefoil, Lotus australis.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Wear long pants and socks whenever you're hiking in poison-plant territory.
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Terrible theories of doomed incurable sin and predestined loss warned her that an evil stock will only beget contamination: the children of the mad must be liable to madness; the children of the depraved, bent towards depravity; the seed of the poison-plant springs up to blast and ruin, only to be overcome by uprooting and sterilisation, or by the judicious grafting, the patient training of many years.
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Attack them as the farmer attacks the poison-plant amongst his crops, or the worms and flies which will blight his harvest, and which, unless he can ruin them, he knows full well will ruin him.
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We examined his body, swollen to a tremendous degree, the usual indication of poison-plant -- evidently very virulent and painful, for we could see how, in his death agony, he had torn up the ground with his teeth, and turned and bitten himself most cruelly.
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The next morning was a sad one, for it disclosed the death from poison-plant of poor old Shiddi, one of the best and noblest of camels -- a fine black, handsome old bull.
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The shepherds in this Colony, whose flocks are generally not larger than 500, are supposed to know every individual poison-plant on their beat, and to keep their sheep off it; but with us, it was all chance work, for we couldn't tie the camels up every night, and we could not control them in what they should eat.
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There was a great deal of the poison-plant all over this country, not the Gyrostemon, but a sheep-poisoning plant of the Gastrolobium family; and I was always in a state of anxiety for fear the camels should eat any of it.
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The back of her book lists famous poison-plant gardens, including Alnwick where
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