Crossword clues for colchicum
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colchicum \Col"chi*cum\, n. [L., a plant with a poisonous root, fr. Colchicus Colchian, fr. Colchis, Gr. ?, an ancient province in Asia, east of the Black Sea, where was the home of Media the sorceress.] (Bot.) A genus of bulbous-rooted plants found in many parts of Europe, including the meadow saffron.
Note: Preparations made from the poisonous bulbs and seeds, and perhaps from the flowers, of the Colchicum autumnale (meadow saffron) are used as remedies for gout and rheumatism.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) Any of several flowers of the genus ''Colchicum''. 2 (context uncountable medicine English) The dried seed of saffron (''Crocus'') used as an analgesic.
Wikipedia
Colchicum ( or ) is a genus of perennial flowering plants containing around 160 species which grow from bulb-like corms. It is a member of the botanical family Colchicaceae, and is native to West Asia, Europe, parts of the Mediterranean coast, down the East African coast to South Africa and the Western Cape. In this genus the ovary of the flower is underground. As a consequence, the styles are extremely long in proportion, often more than .
Usage examples of "colchicum".
The medicinal properties of Colchicum have been known from a very early period.
Crocus in having six stamina, and from the Colchicum, to which it is very nearly allied, in having one style instead of three.
Centaurea montana, Centranthus ruber, Chrysanthemum, Cichorium Intybus, Clethra alnifolia, Colchicum autumnale, C.
I also tried similar drops of an infusion of one part of the extract of colchicum, sold by druggists, to 218 of water.
In early spring the fields and hillsides were clothed in crocus and viola, white stachys, and yellow sternbergia, and pale lilac colchicum nodded on exiguous stalks amid the already sere grass of the meadows.