Conium

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  • noun. The poison hemlock.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A genus of umbelliferous plants, consisting of tall glabrous biennial herbs, with compound leaves and white-flowered umbels.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A genus of biennial, poisonous, white-flowered, umbelliferous plants, bearing ribbed fruit (“seeds”) and decompound leaves.
  • noun. 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, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any of the genus Conium of poisonous perennial herbaceous flowering plants.
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  • noun. small genus of highly toxic biennials: hemlock
  • Word Usage
    "As far as we know she was poisoned by conium, which is one of the oldest, simplest forms known to man, and is simply another name for hemlock."
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