Definition of Genus Cicuta

1. Noun. Small genus of perennial herbs having deadly poisonous tuberous roots: water hemlock.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Cicuta

genus Chrysobalanus
genus Chrysochloris
genus Chrysolepis
genus Chrysolophus
genus Chrysophrys
genus Chrysophyllum
genus Chrysopsis
genus Chrysosplenium
genus Chrysothamnus
genus Chunga
genus Cibotium
genus Cicada
genus Cicer
genus Cichorium
genus Ciconia
genus Cicuta (current term)
genus Cimex
genus Cimicifuga
genus Cinchona
genus Cinclus
genus Cinnamomum
genus Circaea
genus Circaetus
genus Circus
genus Cirsium
genus Cistothorus
genus Cistus
genus Citellus
genus Citharichthys
genus Citroncirus

Literary usage of Genus Cicuta

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of medical terminology, dental surgery, and the collateral sciences by Chapin Aaron Harris, Ferdinand James Samuel Gorgas (1882)
"Until recently the term was often applied to Conium maculatura, a dill'orent genus. Cicuta Aquat'ica. Cicuta virosa, an active poison, seldom employed ..."

2. Transactions of the Medical Society of the County of Albany by Medical Society of the County of Albany (1872)
"The genus cicuta is represented in this country by two species, cicuta maculata and cicuta bulbifera, the former having two or three tuberous roots as large ..."

3. The Homoeopathic Materia Medica: Arranged Systematically and Practically by Alphonse Teste (1854)
"Camphor probably antidotes this drug. Cicuta Virosa—Cicutaria of Lamarck.—Poisonous Hemlock.1—A perennial plant—Genus, Cicuta—Family, ..."

4. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach (1912)
"Another species of the genus Cicuta has glaucous leaves springing directly from the ground, and a fleshy root with two distinct parts; a vertical rootstock, ..."

5. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"The genus Cicuta in North America. Can.]. Bot. 58:1755-1767. Pryer, KM and LR Phillippe. 1989. A synopsis of the genus Sanicula (Apiaceae) in eastern Canada ..."

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