What is "nonpoisonous"

Usage examples of "nonpoisonous".

She was pleased to find milk vetch, the nonpoisonous variety of the plant whose green pods held rows of small round legumes, and she even collected the tiny hard seeds from dried pigweed to grind and add to grains that she cooked into mush.

In all the time he had been working here, the largest beasts of any kind he had seen had been one or two nonpoisonous snakes, a large toad, and a few flashing streaks of lizards among the rock rubble, so he had come to feel that lugging along the pistol was probably stupid anyhow.

The nonpoisonous noncarnivores declined and, since they constituted the food supply for the carnivores, the numbers and varieties of carnivores declined with them.

Eventually two distinct groups segregated out of all this and from that time on lived separate lives: the nonpoisonous types moved out into the oceans away from the competition, and the carnivores naturally followed them.

At one time I felt convinced that morphia acted as a narcotic on Drosera, but after having found in what a singular manner immersion in certain nonpoisonous salts and acids prevents the subsequent action of phosphate of ammonia, whereas other solutions have no such power, my first conviction seems very doubtful.

A quick test had proven them to be nonpoisonous, and a quick taste showed that they were delicious.

The voodoo snakes at the cabin were nonpoisonous, thank you very much.

This substance is changed on a molecular level by the internal control of a Reverend Mother into a nonpoisonous form, at which point it is used in the religious rites of the Fremen.

Rabbits, squirrels, skunks, possums, raccoons, a million birds, a frightening assortment of green and black snakesall nonpoisonous I was reassuredand dozens of cats.

It was an interesting experience, especially when the nonpoisonous king snake that hung around our yard was peering up through the hole at me when I had to go.

I was pretty good at selecting the nonpoisonous ones, but you may have different varieties here.

Freud banned hypnotism from his system of psychotherapy and, as an entirely illogical consequence of this ban, hypnotism came to be largely neglected in surgery and general medicine, where it is of such inestimable value as a nonpoisonous anesthetic, as a raiser of resistance to infection, as an improver of morale, as a promoter of healing and an accelerator of convalescence.

Her second-stage rockets were also of the nonpoisonous variety, because she fired them at a bare 60,000 feet.

If you seek water that’s unboiled and nonpoisonous, that’s the only place you might find it.