innoxious

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The serpents are to be feared, and on approaching them, it is not easy to decide at the first view whether they belong to a poisonous or innoxious species.

From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Ross, Thomasina

The species generally are considered edible, or innoxious.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas

One independent state is declared incompetent to prescribe to another, so long as that state is innoxious to its neighbours.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

Harmless they dozed a scribbling life away, And yawning nations own'd the innoxious lay, But from thy graceless, rude, and beastly brain, What fury breathed the incendiary strain?

From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by Gilfillan, George

The true criterion is, not whether the Government, or an individual may supply the article, but whether the article itself be noxious or innoxious.

From The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by Semmes, Raphael