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cowbane
[ kou-beyn ]
noun
- any of several poisonous plants of the parsley family, as Oxypolis rigidior, of swampy areas of North America, or the water hemlock, Cicuta maculata.
cowbane
/ ˈ첹ʊˌɪ /
noun
- Also calledwater hemlock any of several N temperate poisonous umbelliferous marsh plants of the genus Cicuta, esp C. virosa, having clusters of small white flowers
- a similar and related plant, Oxypolis rigidior of the southeastern and central US
- any umbelliferous plant reputed to be poisonous to cattle
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“There’s no cowbane for miles. I always check where they graze.”
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Cicuta, si-kū′ta, n. a genus of umbelliferous plants with poisonous roots—water-hemlock or cowbane.
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Poison hemlock, spotted cowbane and Jamestown weed are very poisonous.
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Leaflets entire, or with a few low remote teeth Cowbane, Oxypolis rigidior. 15b.
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The other ingredients have no marked toxic action, unless 'berle' and 'ache' refer not to the harmless water parsnip but to the poisonous water hemlock or cowbane.
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