any of a small genus (Conium) of poisonous biennial herbs of the umbel family, with carrotlike leaves and rounded fruits, as the poison hemlock
Origin of conium
Modern Latin from Classical Greek k?neion, hemlock; probably akin to k?nos, coneconium
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conium
noun
The poison hemlock.
Origin of conium
Late Latin cōnium from Greek kōneion probably from kōna liquid pitchTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural coniums)
- (botany) Any of one or two species in the genus Conium of poisonous perennial herbaceous flowering plants.
Origin
From the genus name.
Proper noun
Conium n
- A taxonomic genus within the family Apiaceae — poison hemlock, native around the Mediterranean.
Origin
From Ancient Greek κονασ (konas, “to whirl”), a reference to vertigo, a symptom of ingesting the plant.
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