Sentence examples for which poisonous from inspiring English sources

In one hour, she recited Shakespearean verses, quoted Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" and expounded on the process by which poisonous tree frogs derive toxicity from plants they eat, which she summed up in two words: "That's hot".

Once they learned how to brew cyanide from pollen, they made their own tissues toxic and developed the higher art of Mullerian mimicry, in which poisonous species resemble one another.

The New Yorker, December 20 , 1930 P. 13Thirty students of mission school in Bombay die from having eaten soup into which poisonous lizard had fallen, and fifty school children of New Brunswick, N.J. give a party to honor horse which had produced in nine years engough antitoxin to save thirty thousand children from diphtheria.

Long-standing territorial disputes, such as competing claims over the rights to natural gas exploration in the East China Sea, also remain to be resolved, not to mention the investigation into the unsettling incident in which poisonous dumplings imported from China sickened a number of Japanese consumers.

The metabolic system of a particular organism determines which substances it will find nutritious and which poisonous.

Most of the time they are at home, and the home and its environments can be an unsafe place in which poisonous substances are unintentionally ingested.

Many plants are poisonous if eaten, such as bracken fern, which poisons cattle and horses, and ragwort, which contains a substance poisonous to the liver of cattle.

And still others contain mercury, which is poisonous.

An earlier version recommended clematis, which is poisonous to dogs.

There are several species of snakes, many of which are poisonous, and numerous types of lizards.

Visible mercury, which is poisonous to the nervous system, was in several places in the room.