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sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 week agoPoisonous: harms you if you touch or eat it
Venomous: harms you by injecting a toxin (through biting, stinging, etc.)
I know there’s a few poisonous butterflies (e.g. the Monarch butterfly), and I can find a few others listed on Wikipedia (and I’m sure there are others not on there too)
Slashme@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Note that “poisonous” has always also had the meaning of “harms by injecting a toxin” (the Wiktionary entry “poisonous” has examples from the 1600s to the 2000s).