colchicum

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English

Colchicum speciosum
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Etymology

From Latin, from Ancient Greek κολχικόν (kolkhikón).

Noun

colchicum (countable and uncountable, plural colchicums)

  1. (countable) Any of several flowers of the genus Colchicum.
  2. (uncountable, medicine) The dried seed of the poisonous meadow saffron, Colchicum autumnale, used medicinally.
    • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 87:
      Book VI deals with surgery, including an account of tracheotomy, and a final long book is taken up with drugs, including the use of colchicum for gout.

Latin

Adjective

colchicum

  1. inflection of colchicus:
    1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
    2. accusative masculine singular