innoxious

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The species generally are considered edible, or innoxious.

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

Born to no Pride, inheriting no Strife, Nor marrying Discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious thro' his age.

From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Pope, Alexander

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 The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry

I am sure that the principles predominant in France extend to very many persons, and descriptions of persons, in all countries, who think their innoxious indolence their security.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

From Persuasion by Austen, Jane