poisonous
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The azure shimmer of the blue morpho confuses predators, while monarchs’ vibrant orange-and-black wings warn birds and other predators that they are poisonous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
The Pluskal Group, including Mutabdžija, was studying the same difficult family of diterpenoid alkaloids in wolfsbane, a famously poisonous relative of larkspur that is also known as monkshood.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
We want the drama and the storylines of much of the campaign just gone, but we could do without the poisonous way it all finished in the final week or two.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
For his part, during his by-election campaign, Burnham warned voters that Britain risked drifting towards the "polarised, poisonous politics" of the United States, where "people in communities don't work together any more".
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
The Spider: “The prettier the spider, the more poisonous it is.”
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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