Nocuous
[NAHK-yoo-əs]
Part of speech: adjective
Origin: Latin, mid-17th century
1.
Noxious, harmful, or poisonous.
Examples of Nocuous in a sentence
"The lab techs wore close-fitting face masks to protect them from the nocuous liquids they were mixing."
"Removing the nocuous plants growing behind the garden was a complicated job."
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