Cowbane

Word COWBANE
Character 7
Hyphenation cow bane
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Definitions and meanings of "Cowbane"

What do we mean by cowbane?

A perennial North American herb (Oxypolis rigidior) in the parsley family, having pinnately compound leaves and umbels of small white flowers. noun

Any of several related plants, such as the water hemlock. noun

A popular name of the Cicuta virosa, or water-hemlock: so named from its supposed injurious effect upon cows. See Cicuta. noun

An American umbelliferous swamp-plant, Oxypolis rigidior, ranging from New York to Florida and westward to Minnesota and Louisiana, supposed to be poisonous to cattle. Also called hemlock-dropwort: and water-dropwort. See cut in middle column. noun

A poisonous umbelliferous plant; in England, the Cicuta virosa; in the United States, the Cicuta maculata and the Archemora rigida. See water hemlock. noun

Any of several related poisonous plants of the genus Cicuta; especially the water hemlock noun

Any of several related poisonous plants of the genus Cicuta

Cicuta virosa, the name species of this genus.

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The word "cowbane" in example sentences

They employ the dried roots of the cowbane (_Cicuta virosa_), the bruised buds of the Dutch myrtle, and have discovered methods of dyeing with various lichens. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

Twice or thrice pinnate leaves, toothed like a tenon saw, with conspicuous veins ending in the notches, brand it as the beaver poison, otherwise known as the musquash root and spotted cowbane. ❋ Frederick John Lazell (1905)

The poisonous hemlocks are two, one of which, the common hemlock, is said to have been the plant from which the Athenians prepared their poison for executing citizens condemned to death; and the other, the water-hemlock, or cowbane, is particularly deadly when eaten by cattle, to which it is fatal in a very few hours. ❋ Unknown (1882)

The deepest colour is obtained from the dried root of a plant which from their description appears to be cowbane (Cicuta virosa). ❋ John Franklin (1816)

'ache' refer not to the harmless water parsnip but to the poisonous water hemlock or cowbane. ❋ Margaret Alice Murray (1913)

The common name for water hemlock is the cowbane.’ ❋ Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 (1958)

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