Crossword clues for conium
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 hemlock, spotted hemlock, poison parsley), a roadside weed of Europe, Asia, and America, cultivated in the United States for medicinal purpose. It is an active poison. The leaves and fruit are used in medicine.
Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) Any of one or two species in the genus ''Conium'' of poisonous perennial herbaceous flowering plants.
Wikipedia
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 Asia, while the other three are from southern Africa.
Usage examples of "conium".
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.