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Definition of Genus Conium
1. Noun. Small genus of highly toxic biennials: hemlock.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Apiaceae, Carrot Family, Family Apiaceae, Family Umbelliferae, Umbelliferae
Member holonyms: California Fern, Conium Maculatum, Hemlock, Nebraska Fern, Poison Hemlock, Poison Parsley, Winter Fern
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Conium
Literary usage of Genus Conium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal ...by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"genus Conium,* Linn. B. & H., Gen., i, p. 883; Baill., Hist. Pl., vii, p. 229.
Species 2 or 3, natives of the northern hemisphere of the old world. 118. ..."
2. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"Humboldt, indeed, referred H to the genus Conium (Hemlock), but it has since been
made the type of a new genus. The flowers are in compound umbels, ..."
3. An Introduction to Systematic and Physiological Botany by Thomas Nuttall (1827)
"... an umbelliferous plant of South America, belonging to the genus Conium, or
Hemlock, are also eaten, and esteemed as but little inferior, ..."
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