NOUN
- dermatitis resulting from contact with a poison oak plant
- climbing plant common in eastern and central United States with ternate leaves and greenish flowers followed by white berries; yields an irritating oil that causes a rash on contact
How To Use poison oak In A Sentence
- Then I added two herbs used by American Indians: the rich, dark-green leaves of plantain for relieving irritated skin and sticky grindelia flowers, or “gumweed,” with their light, fresh scent, to treat the itch of poison ivy and poison oak. The Last Chance Dog
- So now I'm all bright pink and look like I just got back from Girl Scout camp with a case of poison oak. Leaving with honor: My 12th and final report from Iraq
- Poison ivy belongs to the Anacardiaceae or cashew family, which includes many other rash-causing plants such as poison oak and poison
- And you can get even better protection by avoiding poison ivy all together, as well as its cousins poison sumac and poison oak.
- Poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac all contain the same allergic irritant: urushiol.
- Mangoes come in hundreds of varieties and a wide range of shapes and sizes, and are distant relatives of cashews, pistachios, poison oak and poison ivy.
- The offending material in all species of poison ivy, poison oak and poison sumac is an oily resin known as urushiol. Summertime Skin Irritants
- This flat path runs just slightly to the right of the loop, and is a good choice if you'd like to see buckbrush, poison oak, coyote brush, coast live oak, elderberry, and big-leaf maple specimens.
- The farmland had gone wild here, taken over by poison oak, beargrass, and dodder, besides the inevitable blackberry bushes and gorse. Night World No. 1
- Also not a brand-new offering, this company offers herbal alternatives in the form of sunblock, bug repellent, muscle pain alleviator, and poison oak and ivy soap.
