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Poison dogwood   /pˈɔɪzən dˈɔgwˌʊd/   Listen
Poison dogwood

noun
1.
Smooth American swamp shrub with pinnate leaves and greenish flowers followed by greenish white berries; yields an irritating oil.  Synonyms: poison ash, poison sumac, Rhus vernix, Toxicodendron vernix.





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"Poison dogwood" Quotes from Famous Books



... foliage of my dream. The street sparrows, pestiferous and persistent as they are, would forsake my sylvan pageant if I spoke of the Bird-foot Violet as the 'Viola Pedata'; and the commonest cur would run howling if he beard the gentle Poison Dogwood maligned as the 'Rhus Venenata'. The very milk-cans would turn to their native pumps in disgust from my attempt to invoke our simple American Cowslip ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells


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