Crossword-Solution: CONIUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Conium | n. | A genus of biennial, poisonous, white-flowered, umbelliferous plants, bearing ribbed fruit ("seeds") and decompound leaves. |
| Conium | n. | The common hemlock (Conium maculatum, poison hemlock, spotted hemlock, poison parsley), a roadside weed of Europe, Asia, and America, cultivated in the United States for medicinal purpose. It is an active poison. The leaves and fruit are used in medicine. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Rupert assigns as a reason, that Christ's body was wrapped in spices by his disciples, and not by the apostles whose successors are bishops and priests: besides, the hymn sung by the deacon is the præconium Paschale, or announcement of the Resurrection, which was first made by inferiors to their superiors, by the women to the apostles.
Violent disturbance must be quelled, and among the remedial agents required for this duty we may include Veratrum, Ipecac, Digitalis, Opium, Conium, and Asclepias.
XXXIX.--CONIUM AND CALABAR BEAN =Conium Maculatum= (Spotted Hemlock).--All parts of the plant are poisonous, often mistaken for parsley.
The Spotted Hemlock (_Conium maculatum_), and the Sickly-smelling Henbane (_Hyoscyamus niger_), are plants of common wild growth throughout England, especially the former, and are well known to everyone familiar with our Herbal Simples.
Botanically, it bears the name of _Conium maculatum_ (spotted), the first of these words coming from the Greek, _konos_, a top, and having reference to the giddiness which the juice of hemlock causes toxically in the [249] human brain.