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Webster 1913 Edition

Cicuta

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Ci-cu′ta

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Noun.
[L., the poison hemlock.]
(Bot.)
a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known.
☞ The name cicuta is sometimes erroneously applied to Conium maculatum, or officinal hemlock.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cicuta

CICUTA

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Noun.
Water-hemlock, a plant whose root is poisonous. This term was used by the ancients and by medical writers for the Conium maculatum, or common hemlock, the expressed juice of which was used as a common poison. Socrates and Phocion perished by it. It is now used medicinally in moderate doses, with good effect.

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