- Poisonous eurasian plant - Poisonous herb - The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having
finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata,
bulbifera, and virosa, and the Conium maculatum. See Conium. - An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies, / Tsuga,
Canadensis); hemlock spruce. - The wood or timber of the hemlock tree.
- Poisonous eurasian plant - A plant of the genus Hyoscyamus (H. niger). All parts of
the plant are poisonous, and the leaves are used for the same purposes
as belladonna. It is poisonous to domestic fowls; whence the name.
Called also, stinking nightshade, from the fetid odor of the plant. See
Hyoscyamus.
- Flowering plant, the source of digitalis - Plant type - Poisonous eurasian plant - Purple flower - Tall plant with erect spikes - Woodland plant - Any plant of the genus Digitalis. The common English
foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a handsome perennial or biennial
plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine, both as a sedative
and diuretic. See Digitalis.
- Eurasian plant with purplish flowers - Poisonous plant; a fictional magician - A low plant (Mandragora officinarum) of the Nightshade
family, having a fleshy root, often forked, and supposed to resemble a
man. It was therefore supposed to have animal life, and to cry out when
pulled up. All parts of the plant are strongly narcotic. It is found in
the Mediterranean region. - The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). See May apple under
May, and Podophyllum.
- A poisonous plant of the Ranunculaceae family - The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; -- applied to any plant
of the genus Aconitum (tribe Hellebore), all the species of which are
poisonous. - An extract or tincture obtained from Aconitum napellus,
used as a poison and medicinally.