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Small genus of highly toxic biennials hemlock
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conium
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n. (context botany English) Any of one or two species in the genus ''Conium'' of poisonous perennial herbaceous flowering plants.
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Conium ( or ) is a genus of flowering plants in the carrot family Apiaceae which consists of four species accepted by The Plant List . One species, C. maculatum , which is highly poisonous, is native to temperate regions of Europe, North Africa and Western ...
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conium \Co*ni"um\ (? or ?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? hemlock.] (Bot.) A genus of biennial, poisonous, white-flowered, umbelliferous plants, bearing ribbed fruit (``seeds'') and decompound leaves. (Med.) The common hemlock ( Conium maculatum , poison ...
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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.