Crossword clues for venomous
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Venomous \Ven"om*ous\, a. [OE. venemous, venimous, F. venimeux, L. venenosus, fr. venenum poison. See Venom, and cf. Venenose.]
Full of venom; noxious to animal life; poisonous; as, the bite of a serpent may be venomous.
(Zo["o]l.) Having a poison gland or glands for the secretion of venom, as certain serpents and insects.
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Noxious; mischievous; malignant; spiteful; as, a venomous progeny; a venomous writer.
Venomous snake (Zo["o]l.), any serpent which has poison glands and fangs, whether dangerous to man or not. These serpents constitute two tribes, the viperine serpents, or Solenoglypha, and the cobralike serpents, or Proteroglypha. The former have perforated, erectile fangs situated in the front part of the upper jaw, and are without ordinary teeth behind the fangs; the latter have permanently erect and grooved fangs, with ordinary maxillary teeth behind them. [1913 Webster] -- Ven"om*ous*ly, adv. -- Ven"om*ous*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from Anglo-French venimeus, Old French venimos (12c., Modern French venimeux), from venim (see venom). Earliest recorded use is figurative; literal sense by early 14c. Related: Venomously; venomousness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Full of venom. 2 toxic; poisonous. 3 noxious; evil. 4 malignant; spiteful; hateful. 5 Producing venom (poison usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging) in glands or accumulating venom from food. 6 powerful
WordNet
adj. extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite" [syn: deadly, virulent]
harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation" [syn: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic]
marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; "a malevolent lie"; "poisonous hate...in his eyes"- Ernest Hemingway; "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip" [syn: poisonous, vicious]
Wikipedia
Venomous is the fourth studio album by Indonesian metal band Burgerkill, produced by Yayat Ahdiat and Burgerkill. Venomous is the first album to feature the vocals of lead vocalist Vicky. The album was a local success. In the first week of album promo concert at Bandung Berisik, a local metal venue, about 1,000 compact disks were sold.
Venomous was listed #3rd rank after Satu Untuk Berbagi and Jemima as the best studio album release for 2011 by Rolling Stone Indonesia magazine.
Venomous is a 2001 disaster horror film starring Treat Williams, Mary Page Keller and Hannes Jaenicke and directed by Fred Olen Ray, credited as Ed Raymond.
Usage examples of "venomous".
And they lamented when, after the Autumnal Equinox, the malign influence of the venomous Scorpion, and vindictive Archer, and the filthy and ill-omened He-Goat dragged him down toward the Winter Solstice.
Yanagisawa said in the quiet, venomous tone that had subdued many a man braver than Lord Kii.
Weems, speaking for Horry, describes in ludicrous terms, their journey through North Carolina, -- through a region swarming with Tories, but, fortunately for our travellers, who were venomous without being active.
They may have been venomous beasts for all I know, but they did us no harm, and we were now tuned to a pitch when a weird creeping thing more or less mattered little.
The way she said it was a venomous revelation to Marianne, a metempiric bombshell which seemed to make the matter certain forever.
Did you notice that Captain Fletcher gave Prasad a venomous efficiency report?
Papadapolous swallowed a venomous curse, then shook himself and forced his mind away from its fury at Suchon and back to the task at hand.
He put it down upon the cover of a jar in which there lay one of the finest asps he had ever seen, thick, venomous, snub-nosed, coiled down in spirits of wine, with its slit-pupilled eye looking at him through the glass.
A furious mumble from behind the fingers and a venomous flash from the Babbitt eyes were answers sufficient.
She sat with her unprotected back to a vastness of desert, where venomous snakes slithered in the heat of the night, where tarantulas as hairy as the maniacal mullahs of the Taliban scurried in search of prey, and where the creepiest species native to this cruel realm of rock and sand and scraggly scrub were even more fearsome than serpents or spiders.
The druidical powers of Curley Greenleaf and Gellor were yoked with the magic of the wizard, Oscar, to create novel surprises such as sticks suddenly turning into venomous snakes when someone passed, trees that would become partially sentient and attack with their great limbs, and the like.
Dragon herbs, was ascribed the faculty of curing the bites and stings of venomous beasts, and of mad dogs.
It was perhaps the unease of the hotblooded carnivore faced by the cold menace of a venomous snake.
But the Jibaro headhunter, armed with a poisonous weapon, was as dangerous as a venomous reptile.
They found a public notary there who said he would certify a document that said that Orest Mercator spent so many days incarcerated with these venomous reptiles blah blah blah.