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CICUTA

Volume 2 · 44 words · 1771 Edition

in botany, a genus of the pentandria digynia clasps. The fruit is furrowed and ovated. The species are three, only one of which, viz. the virosa, or long-leaved water-hemlock, is a native of Britain.

Cicuta is also a synonyme of the conium. See Conium.