Definitions
Poisonous by bite or sting, or full of malice.
Word origin
From Middle English venymous, from Old French venimos, composed of venim (“venom”) + -os (adjective-forming suffix). Synchronically analysable as venom + -ous. Compare Modern French venimeux. Piecewise doublet of venenous.
Used in a sentence
“Do venomous spiders have glands?”
“[T]he biting of a Pike is venemous and hard to be cured.”
“[M]any, if not moſt of our European venemous Animals carry their Cure, as vvell as Poiſon in their ovvn Bodies. The Oil, and I doubt not, the Body of Scorpions too, is a certain Remedy againſt its Stroke.”
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01“Poisonous by bite”8 letters
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