colchicum

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English

Colchicum speciosum
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Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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 2016, p. 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

(deprecated template usage) colchicum

  1. nominative neuter singular of colchicus
  2. accusative masculine singular of colchicus
  3. accusative neuter singular of colchicus
  4. vocative neuter singular of colchicus
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