Crossword clues for cowbane
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cowbane \Cow"bane`\ (kou"b[=a]n`), n. (Bot.) A poisonous umbelliferous plant; in England, the Cicuta virosa; in the United States, the Cicuta maculata and the Archemora rigida. See Water hemlock.
Wiktionary
n. Any of several related poisonous plants of the genus ''Cicuta''; especially the (vern: water hemlock)
WordNet
Usage examples of "cowbane".
Giving evidence, Detective Chief Inspector Wilkes said that cowbane had been introduced into a spinach quiche by accident.
Economides, had stated to the police that the cowbane must have become mixed with the spinach by accident.
Cummings-Browne or where I was taking the quiche, decide to put cowbane in it?
Jones had given me that you had used cowbane already in one of your floral arrangements.
Cummings-Browne had cowbane in her flower arrangement could be coincidence.
I found out about the photograph you had taken, he gave me the negative, I got it developed and found the cowbane in it.
There are thimbleflowers under a good many hedges, and cowbane grows in ditches and stagnant water.
Setting aside the possibility of death by asphyxiation, Susanna finally narrowed her suspects down to three: monkshood, cowbane, and henbane.
Dried, powdered cowbane was less toxic than the whole root which Bexwith had eaten.
Also known as beaver poison, cowbane, and locoweed, and by other names as well.