• Melochar
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    714 days ago

    Poisonous: will make you sick if you eat it. Venomous: will make you sick if it bites or stings you.

    • @CatsGoMOW
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      144 days ago

      Wait. So what if you ate the snake… wouldn’t that mean at that point it could be poisonous? Checkmate.

      • @JusticeForPorygon
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        4 days ago

        If you consume venom and don’t have any open sores, you should be fine in most cases.

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        Poison, however, will probably still kill you if you inject it into your bloodstream. Then again, most things will kill you if you inject it into your bloodstream.

      • gila
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        24 days ago

        Yes, venom is poisonous. It is a subset of poisons that are injected via bites or stings.