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colchicum en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Colchicum, from Latin colchicum, from Ancient Greek κολχικόν (kolkhikón).

Meanings

  1. (countable) Any of several flowers of the genus Colchicum.
  2. (uncountable) The dried seed of the poisonous meadow saffron, Colchicum autumnale, used medicinally.
    • 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. 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 87:

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Relateds

colchicine

Translations (27)

uk пізньоцві́т (Colchicum-genus plant) · tr acı çiğdem (Colchicum-genus plant) · he סתוונית (Colchicum-genus plant) · ru безвре́менник (Colchicum-genus plant) · az vaxtsızçiçək (Colchicum-genus plant) · be восе́ннік (Colchicum-genus plant) · be познацве́т (Colchicum-genus plant) · hsb pózdnička (Colchicum-genus plant) · pt cólquico (Colchicum-genus plant) · es cólquico (Colchicum-genus plant) · io kolchiko (Colchicum-genus plant) · et sügislill (Colchicum-genus plant) · ru осе́нник (Colchicum-genus plant) · fr colchique (Colchicum-genus plant) · ru ко́лхикум (Colchicum-genus plant) · cmn 秋水仙 (Colchicum-genus plant) · bg мразовец (Colchicum-genus plant) · tr çakal çiğdemi (Colchicum-genus plant) · is haustlilja (Colchicum-genus plant) · kk лапыз (Colchicum-genus plant) · de Zeitlose (Colchicum-genus plant) · cs ocún (Colchicum-genus plant) · ar لَحْلَاح (Colchicum-genus plant) · pl zimowit (Colchicum-genus plant) · fi myrkkylilja (Colchicum-genus plant) · hy շնդեղ (Colchicum-genus plant) · hu kikerics (Colchicum-genus plant)