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conium

[ koh-nee-uhm ]

noun

  1. the poison hemlock, Conium maculatum.


conium

/ ˈəʊɪə /

noun

  1. either of the two N temperate plants of the umbelliferous genus Conium, esp hemlock
  2. an extract of either of these plants, formerly used to treat spasmodic disorders
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of conium1

1860–65; < New Latin; Late Latin < Greek ṓn𾱴Dz
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of conium1

C19: from Late Latin: hemlock, from Greek ōԱ𾱴Dz; perhaps related to Greek ōԴDz cone
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Example Sentences

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“Cerberin, aconite, conium, polonium—the poisons are all running together in my head.”

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When the leaves are finely divided, as in Conium, much trouble will be experienced in lifting a half-dried specimen from one paper to another; but the plant may be placed in a sheet of thin blotting paper, and the sheet containing the plant, instead of the plant itself, can then be moved.

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Erravit et Christus piscatores citius quam sophistam ad pr�conium emittens,—TERTULLIAN, de Anima, 3.

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Like other members of the same family, as Conium, it produces very much vertigo, this has always been present in the cases of poisoning with the plant.

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Numerous forms of poisonous fungi, microscopic and otherwise, are here at home, and nourished by the carburetted and other forms of hydrogen gas hourly engendered and saturating the soil; while on the dampest spots the less noxious portions of such hydrates are assimilated by the mint plant in the shape of oil; and which disputes with sour, poisonous, and blossomless grasses for the occupancy of the surface, mingled with the still more noxious straggling forms of the ethusa, occasionally the angelica, vison, conium, &c.

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