venomer
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
venomer (plural venomers)
- (dated, rare) One who or that which poisons.
- 1867, William Dean Howells, Venetian Life:
- And yet it would have been an excellent thing in the good old toxicological days of Italy; and people of noble family would have found a sensitive goblet of this sort as sovereign against the arts of venomers as an exclusive diet of boiled eggs.
- 1966, Herbert Ludwig Stahnke, The treatment of venomous bites and stings, page 15:
- Attention has been previously directed to the vast representation of venomous animals in the world fauna. Of this group, certain taxa are of most concern as venomers in the United States.