Poisonous vs. Venomous?

Question

What's the difference between the two? Please give a somewhat in-depth answer. ^_^

Answer 1

Sigh. I wish you people woudl stop guessing at answers. Every response so far has been completely incorrect.

Quite simply venom is a type of poison. All venoms are poisons but there are many poisons that are not venoms. All venomous creatures are poisonous but there are many poisonous creatures that are not venomous.

A poison is any substance capable of killing something without causing overt phyical damage. So mercury is a poison, so is carbon dioxide, or snake venom, or the skin secretions of a toad, or weed killer or many other susbatnces. They all kill and they do so without causing very much physical damage. In contrast fire or a knife aren't poisons because although they can certainly kill they do so through the physical damage they cause.

A venom is a poison that an animal produces explicitely for injecting into other animals. So a snake or spider or jellyfish or bee all produce venom. We know they produce venom because they all produce poisons that they inject into other animals.

In contrast toads do not produce venom, nor do monarch butterflies or puffer fish or poison ivy. All those organisms certainly produce poisons but the poison isn't intended to be injected into another naimal. Their poisons work when another animal touches or eats them so they aren't venoms.

The short answer is that if a substance kills without causing much physical damage it is a poison. If the poison is designed explicitely to be injected into another animal it is a venom.

The following list might help ypu to undertsand the difference.

Arsenic: poisnous
Deadly nightshade: poisonous.
Rattle snake: poisonous AND venomous
Jellyfish : poisonous AND venomous
Puffer fish: poisonous
Fire ant: poisonous AND venomous
Cigarettes: poisonous
Honey bee: poisonous AND venomous
Three weak old chicken salad: poisonous

Answer 2

here are the definitions:

poi·son·ous Audio pronunciation of "poisonous" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (poiz-ns)
adj.

1. Capable of harming or killing by or as if by poison; toxic or venomous.
2. Containing a poison.
3. Marked by apparent ill will: “poisonous hate... in his eyes” (Ernest Hemingway)


4 entries found for venomous.
ven·om·ous Audio pronunciation of "venomous" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (vn-ms)
adj.

1.
1. Secreting and transmitting venom: a venomous snake.
2. Full of or containing venom.
2. Malicious; spiteful: a venomous remark. See Synonyms at poisonous

Answer 3

Poisonous more refers to something you'd eat or touch and have an adverse reaction to. Like poison ivy, poison dart frogs, or some types of berries, etc. Venomous means more it something bit something, it would have a reaction. Like the gila monster, or a venomous snake, or a sting ray's barb. Poisonous means that you have to do something to get the reaction, such as touch the poison ivy, or eat a poisonous berry. Venomous means that something else has done something to give something a reaction, say the venomous snake bit you.
Hope this helps!

Answer 4

venomous has direct reference to poison coming from an animal. For example, a rattlesnake can be both poisonous and venomous but a bottle of clorox bleach would only be poisonous.

Answer 5

something that is poisonous has a inately lethal chemical makeup
something venomous has the ability to manufacture a lethal chemical (Venom)
a snake is venomous but you could eat the snake and it wouldnt poison you if you avoid its venom sak
if you drank a bottle of bleach it would poison you becuse of its innate makeup

Answer 6

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Answer 7

a venom is pertaining to venom from a reptile,insect
while the other pertains to anything poison

Answer 8

They are synonymous!

plants are usually poisonous animals are venomous


We are not very refined as a culture and use the English language out of its context!


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Answer 9

poisonous is reffered to something fatal venomous is something filled wity poison

Answer 10

I think they are synonyms