poison dogwood

1. 1.

   smooth American swamp shrub with pinnate leaves and greenish flowers followed by greenish white berries; yields an irritating oil

   Synonymspoison ashpoison sumacToxicodendron vernixRhus vernix

   Broaderpoisonous plant

   Part ofToxicodendron

Questions about poison dogwood

What does poison dogwood mean?

poison dogwood means "smooth American swamp shrub with pinnate leaves and greenish flowers followed by greenish white berries; yields an irritating oil".

What is another word for poison dogwood?

Close synonyms include poison ash, poison sumac, Toxicodendron vernix, Rhus vernix. 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 poison dogwood a common word?

poison dogwood 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.