Colchicum:秋葵,秋水仙,秋水仙碱,秋水仙花, 例句 - 英英词典, 干净又全面的英英查词

n. 名词 noun

any Old World plant of the genus Colchicum, of the lily family, especially the autumn crocus, C. autumnale.
the dried seeds or corms of this plant.
Pharmacology. a medicine or drug prepared from them, used in medicine chiefly in the treatment of gout.

All the preparations of colchicum are poisonous in large doses.
This extract is given in the usual cases in which colchicum is employed.
Some cause violent pain, as colchicum, hellebore, and aconite.
She and it belonged to his first volume, and neither crocus nor colchicum had been added at the date of which I write.
A mixture of wine of colchicum, wine of opium, and tincture of saffron.