Conium meaning

kō'nē-əm
The poison hemlock.
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Any of a small genus (Conium) of poisonous biennial herbs of the umbel family, with carrotlike leaves and rounded fruits, as the poison hemlock.
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(botany) Any of one or two species in the genus Conium of poisonous perennial herbaceous flowering plants.
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A taxonomic genus within the family Apiaceae — poison hemlock, native around the Mediterranean.
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Origin 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

Conium Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • the vegetation is distinctively tropical, including among its economic products cacao, cotton, sugar, tobacco, rice, maize, yucca (also known as cassava and mandioca), peanuts, bananas, sweet potatoes, yams, arracacha (Conium moschatum, H.

  • CONINE, or Coniine (a-propyl piperidine), C 5 H 17 N, an alkaloid occurring, associated with y-coniceine, conhydrine, pseudoconhydrine and methyl conine, in hemlock (Conium maculatum).

  • conium maculatum L. Poison Hemlock, Carrot Fern Dermatitis from the plant was reported by several authors cited by Touton (1932 ).

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