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Cicuta   Listen
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Cicuta  n.  (Bot.) A genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known. Note: The name cicuta is sometimes erroneously applied to Conium maculatum, or officinal hemlock.





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"Cicuta" Quotes from Famous Books



... (Cicuta maculata L.) is the most poisonous plant in the flora of the United States, and has probably destroyed more human lives than all our other toxic plants combined. As a member of the parsley family (Umbellifera) it resembles in general appearance the carrot and parsnip of the same ...
— The Golf Course Mystery • Chester K. Steele


Words linked to "Cicuta" :   carrot family, spotted water hemlock, rosid dicot genus, family Umbelliferae, Cicuta verosa, Umbelliferae


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