poisonous plant

Questions about poisonous plant

What does poisonous plant mean?

poisonous plant means "a plant that when touched or ingested in sufficient quantity can be harmful or fatal to an organism".

Is poisonous plant a common word?

poisonous plant 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.