单词 | cow-bane |
释义 | ˈcow-bane [f. cow n.1 + bane n.1 2 b, poison, poisonous plant.] A name of the Water Hemlock, Cicuta virosa, an extremely poisonous plant, mentioned by Linnæus as fatal to cows. spotted cowbane: an American species, C. maculata.
1776Withering Brit. Plants I. 177 Cowbane..is one of the rankest of our vegetable poisons..Early in the spring, when it grows in the water, cows often eat it and are killed by it. 1800Sir J. E. Smith Flora Brit. I. 322 Cicuta virosa, Water Hemlock, Water Cowbane. 1854Balfour Class-bk. Bot. 826. 1889 R. B. Anderson tr. Rydberg's Teut. Myth. 216 A woman, who had her lap full of cowbanes. |

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