cicuta

WORDNET DICTIONARY

cicuta(n = noun.plant) genus cicuta - small genus of perennial herbs having deadly poisonous tuberous roots: water hemlock; Array

is a kind of rosid dicot genus

is a member of apiaceae, carrot family, family apiaceae, family umbelliferae, umbelliferae

cicuta, n. [L., the poison hemlock.].

a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known. [1913 Webster]

" The name cicuta is sometimes erroneously applied to Conium maculatum, or officinal hemlock." [1913 Webster]

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