poison mercury

Questions about poison mercury

What does poison mercury mean?

poison mercury means "climbing plant common in eastern and central United States with ternate leaves and greenish flowers followed by white berries; yields an irritating oil that causes a rash on contact".

What is another word for poison mercury?

Close synonyms include poison ivy, markweed, poison oak, Toxicodendron radicans, Rhus radicans. 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 mercury a common word?

poison mercury 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.