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Webster 1913 Edition
Conium
‖
Co-ni′um
(? or [GREEK])
, Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] hemlock.]
1.
(Bot.)
A genus of biennial, poisonous, white-flowered, umbelliferous plants, bearing ribbed fruit (“seeds”) and decompound leaves.
2.
(Med.)
The common hemlock (
Conium maculatum
, poison hemlock, spotted hemlock, poison parsley), a roadside weed of Europe, Asia, and America, cultivated in the United States for medicinal purpose. It is an active poison. The leaves and fruit are used in medicine. Definition 2024
Conium
Conium
See also: conium
Translingual
Conium maculatum, one of the umbellifers called hemlock
Proper noun
Conium n
- A taxonomic genus within the family Apiaceae – poison hemlock, native around the Mediterranean.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II - clades; Apiales - order; Apiaceae - family; Apioideae - subfamily; Smyrnieae - tribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Conium maculatum, Conium chaerophylloides - species
conium
conium
See also: Conium
English
Noun
conium (plural coniums)
- (botany) Any of one or two species in the genus Conium of poisonous perennial herbaceous flowering plants.
Synonyms
Translations
Conium — see poison hemlock
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κώνειον (kṓneion).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /koːˈniː.um/, [koːˈniː.ũ]
Noun
cōnīum n (genitive cōniī); second declension
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cōnīum | cōnīa |
| genitive | cōnīī | cōnīōrum |
| dative | cōnīō | cōnīīs |
| accusative | cōnīum | cōnīa |
| ablative | cōnīō | cōnīīs |
| vocative | cōnīum | cōnīa |
Descendants
- Translingual: Conium
References
- conium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “conium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.