lamb-kill

lamb·kill

[lam-kil]
noun

Origin:
1805–15, Americanism; lamb + kill1; so called because poisonous to sheep

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lambkill

noun
North American dwarf shrub resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers; poisonous to young stock [syn: sheep laurel
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Lamb-kill is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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