noun
1. dermatitis resulting from contact with the poison ivy plant
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my poison ivy is drying up
• Hypernyms: ↑Rhus dermatitis
2. 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
• Syn: ↑markweed, ↑poison mercury, ↑poison oak, ↑Toxicodendron radicans, ↑Rhus radicans
• Hypernyms: ↑poisonous plant
• Member Holonyms: ↑Toxicodendron, ↑genus Toxicodendron
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noun [noncount]
1 : a common plant in the central and eastern U.S. that has leaves which cause a very itchy and painful rash on your skin if you touch them
2 : the rash that is caused by poison ivy
I got/have poison ivy all over my arm.
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a N American climbing plant that causes painful spots on the skin when you touch it
Useful english dictionary. 2012.