Definitions for Conium

Conium co·ni·um

Spelling: [koh-nee-uh m]
IPA: /ˈkoʊ ni əm/

Conium is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in Conium (cimnou).

Definitions for Conium

noun

  1. the poison hemlock, Conium maculatum.

Origin of Conium

1860-65; New Latin; Late Latin Greek kṓneion

Examples for Conium

Compounded of conium and Selinum, from its resemblance to these genera.

In pharmacy, the fresh and dried leaf of the wild herb conium maculatum, or spotted hemlock.

conium is certainly anodyne; and produces often a sedative action on the heart.

conium owes its active properties to a volatile liquid alkaloid, Coniine, united with a crystalline alkaloid, Conhydrine.

The seeds, leaves, and root of the conium maculatum are all poisonous.

conium (Hemlock) also owes its properties to the alkaloid Conia.

The results were entirely negative: some of the published cases he refers to conium, and others to aconite.

In this family is found the poison hemlock (conium) used by the ancient Greeks for the elimination of politicians.

Bromide of potassium and hydrate of chloral in drachm doses should be given in connection with conium.

Word Value for Conium
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10

Words with friends

14

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