English > genus Toxicodendron: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | In some classifications: comprising those members of the genus Rhus having foliage that is poisonous to the touch; of North America and northern South America. |
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| Synonym | Toxicodendron |
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| Member of | Anacardiaceae, family Anacardiaceae, sumac family | The cashew family |
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| Members | eastern poison oak, Toxicodendron quercifolium, Rhus quercifolia, Rhus toxicodenedron | poisonous shrub of southeastern United States causing a rash on contact |
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| poison ash, poison dogwood, poison sumac, Toxicodendron vernix, Rhus vernix | Smooth American swamp shrub with pinnate leaves and greenish flowers followed by greenish white berries |
| poison ivy, markweed, poison mercury, poison oak, Toxicodendron radicans, Rhus radicans | Climbing plant common in eastern and central United States with ternate leaves and greenish flowers followed by white berries |
| varnish tree, lacquer tree, Chinese lacquer tree, Japanese lacquer tree, Japanese varnish tree, Japanese sumac, Toxicodendron vernicifluum, Rhus verniciflua | small Asiatic tree yielding a toxic exudate from which lacquer is obtained |
| western poison oak, Toxicodendron diversilobum, Rhus diversiloba | poisonous shrub of the Pacific coast of North America that causes a rash on contact |
| Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
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| Spanish | genus toxicodendron, toxicodendron |
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| Catalan | genus toxicodendron, toxicodendron |
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