poison ivy

See also: poison-ivy

English

poison ivy leaves

Noun

poison ivy (countable and uncountable, plural poison ivies)

1. Any of three ivy-like species of Toxicodendron, known for their ability to cause an itching rash and blistering for most people, through urushiol, an oil that is a skin irritant.
2. (proscribed) Any species of Toxicodendron that can cause a rash, including poison oak and poison sumac.

Hyponyms

• (ivy-like plant producing skin irritant): Toxicodendron orientale (Asian poison ivy), Toxicodendron radicans (eastern poison ivy), Toxicodendron rydbergii (western poison ivy)

Translations

one of several ivy-like urushiol-producing plants

• Arabic: لَبْلَاب m (lablāb)
• Basque: huntz pozoitsu
• Catalan: heura metzinosa f
• Cherokee: ᎤᎸᏓ (ulvda)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: jedovatec kořenující (cs)
• Dutch: gifsumak (nl)
• Esperanto: toksikodendro
• Finnish: myrkkymuratti (fi)
• French: sumac vénéneux (fr) m, (Quebec) herbe à puce f
• German: Giftsumach m
• Irish: eidhneán nimhe m
• Korean: 덩굴옻나무 (deongguronnamu)
• Navajo: kʼíshíshjį́į́zh
• Portuguese: hera venenosa f
• Russian: ядови́тый плющ m (jadovítyj pljušč)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: отровни бршљан m

  Roman: otrovni bršljan m

• Spanish: hiedra venenosa f, yedra ponzoñosa f
• Swedish: klättersumak
• Tagalog: kanipay, yedra
• Turkish: zehirli sarmaşık
• Yiddish: סם־בלעטלעך (sam-bletlekh)

See also

• leaves of three, let it be
• poison oak
• poison sumac