fly poison

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   all parts of plant are highly toxic; bulb pounded and used as a fly poison; sometimes placed in subfamily Melanthiaceae

   SynonymsAmianthum muscaetoxicumAmianthum muscitoxicum

   Broaderliliaceous plant

   Part ofAmianthum

Questions about fly poison

What does fly poison mean?

fly poison means "all parts of plant are highly toxic; bulb pounded and used as a fly poison; sometimes placed in subfamily Melanthiaceae".

What is another word for fly poison?

Close synonyms include Amianthum muscaetoxicum, Amianthum muscitoxicum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fly poison a common word?

fly poison is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.