innoxious
Example Sentences
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When the mushroom is gathered fresh and quickly dried it is then also innoxious.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas
The serpents are to be feared, and on approaching them, it is not easy to decide at the first view whether they belong to a poisonous or innoxious species.
From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Ross, Thomasina
The common black snake, whose bite is perfectly innoxious, and the copper-head, have also a deadly enmity towards the rattle-snake, which, when they meet it, they never fail to attack.
From A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America by Ferrall, S. A. (Simon Ansley)
Born to no Pride, inheriting no Strife, Nor marrying Discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious thro' his age.
From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Pope, Alexander
The true criterion is, not whether the Government, or an individual may supply the article, but whether the article itself be noxious or innoxious.
From The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by Semmes, Raphael
