fly poison

Questions about fly poison

What is another word for fly poison?

It depends which fly poison you mean. In the sense “all parts of plant are highly toxic; bulb pounded and used as a fly poison; sometimes placed in subfamily Melanthiaceae”, the synonyms are Amianthum muscaetoxicum, Amianthum muscitoxicum. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of fly poison?

WordNet records no antonym for fly poison. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for fly poison come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of fly poison

• Full entry for fly poisonAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for fly poisonWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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