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Small genus of perennial herbs having deadly poisonous tuberous roots water hemlock
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cicuta
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context archaic English) hemlock.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cicuta \Ci*cu"ta\, n. [L., the poison hemlock.] (Bot.) a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known. Note: The name cicuta is sometimes erroneously applied to Conium maculatum, or officinal hemlock.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cicuta , commonly known as water hemlock , is a small genus of four species of highly poisonous plants in the family Apiaceae . They are perennial herbaceous plants which grow up to tall, having distinctive small green or white flowers arranged in an umbrella ...
Usage examples of cicuta.
Was not Socrates who was preferred by Apollo, above all the wise men in the world, by envy and malice of wicked persons impoysoned with the herbe Cicuta, as one that corrupted the youth of the countrey, whom alwaies be kept under by correction?
No bastaba la muerte de un ser humano por el hierro o por la cicuta para herir la imaginación de los hombres hasta el fin de los días.
There mournfull Cypresse grew in greatest store,And trees of bitter Gall, and Heben sad,Dead sleeping Poppy, and blacke Hellebore,Cold Coloquintida, and Tetra mad,Mortall Samnitis, and Cicuta bad,With which th'vniust Atheniens made to dyWise Socrates, who thereof quaffing gladPourd out his life, and last PhilosophyTo the faire Critias his dearest Belamy.
The old Roman name of Conium was Cicuta, which prevails in the mediaeval Latin literature, but was applied about 1541 by Gesner and others to another umbelliferous plant, Cicuta virosa, the Water Hemlock, which does not grow in Greece and southern Europe.