It's not only about English skills but also about being Biology savvy.

In everyday speech people confuse these two words all the time.

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There was a web comic explaining the difference, and ukrainian hohly translated it using words отруйні та отрутні and many hohol totally believed that, although отрутні is not even a word, toopiye xoxly xaxa

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