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Re:Sea snakes are washing up on New Zealand’s shores by kens on Sunday August 15, 2021 @06:06PM (#28192981)
I happen to have an Oxford English Dictionary next to me so I took a look. Definition 1 for poisonous is "Containing or of the nature of poison; having the quality of property of poison; venomous".

1665 ... poisonous viper ...

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Re:Sea snakes are washing up on New Zealand’s shores by technothrasher on Sunday August 15, 2021 @09:10PM (#28194003)
The OED is listing common usage, while the biological jargon is specifically drawing a distinction in the way the poison is delivered by an animal.
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