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Cicuta

noun
1.
Small genus of perennial herbs having deadly poisonous tuberous roots: water hemlock.  Synonym: genus Cicuta.



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Cicuta verosa


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"Cicuta" Quotes from Famous Books



... in Johnson's answer to Hanway's Essay on Tea (ante, i. 314) shews that tea was generally made very weak. 'Three cups,' he says, 'make the common quantity, so slightly impregnated that, perhaps, they might be tinged with the Athenian cicuta, and produce less effects than these letters charge upon tea.' Works, ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 3 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill


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


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