"inheritance powder" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "So called because one person might murder another to gain an inheritance.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "inheritance powders",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "inheritance powder (plural inheritance powders)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 316",
          "text": "Arsenic was very popular in the old days [...] Inheritance powder, they called it. Pure, deadly, white, dissolves in any weak acid.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of several poisons used for murder, but especially arsenic and, to a lesser extent, thallium."
      ],
      "id": "en-inheritance_powder-en-noun-fHykwfj8",
      "links": [
        [
          "poison",
          "poison"
        ],
        [
          "murder",
          "murder"
        ],
        [
          "arsenic",
          "arsenic"
        ],
        [
          "thallium",
          "thallium"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) Any of several poisons used for murder, but especially arsenic and, to a lesser extent, thallium."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "inheritance powder"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "So called because one person might murder another to gain an inheritance.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "inheritance powders",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "inheritance powder (plural inheritance powders)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 316",
          "text": "Arsenic was very popular in the old days [...] Inheritance powder, they called it. Pure, deadly, white, dissolves in any weak acid.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of several poisons used for murder, but especially arsenic and, to a lesser extent, thallium."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "poison",
          "poison"
        ],
        [
          "murder",
          "murder"
        ],
        [
          "arsenic",
          "arsenic"
        ],
        [
          "thallium",
          "thallium"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) Any of several poisons used for murder, but especially arsenic and, to a lesser extent, thallium."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "inheritance powder"
}