Conium definition
The poison hemlock.
noun
Any of a small genus (Conium) of poisonous biennial herbs of the umbel family, with carrotlike leaves and rounded fruits, as the poison hemlock.
noun
(botany) Any of one or two species in the genus Conium of poisonous perennial herbaceous flowering plants.
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conium
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coniumsOrigin of conium
- Late Latin cōnium from Greek kōneion probably from kōna liquid pitch
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Ancient Greek κονασ (konas, “to whirl”), a reference to vertigo, a symptom of ingesting the plant.
From Wiktionary
- From the genus name.
From Wiktionary