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UK
/kˈɒltʃɪkəm/
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NOUN
- chiefly fall-blooming perennial cormous herbs; sometimes placed in family Colchicaceae
How To Use Colchicum In A Sentence
- Another flower well worth waiting for is the autumn colchicum, Colchicum speciosum.
- Some examples of remedies commonly used areChamomilla, Nux vomica, Ipecac, andColchicum. Standing up to terrorists, standing up to tomatoes.
- But with autumn crocus and colchicum I extended my planting pleasure by several weeks.
- There are two different types of fall blooming bulbs, colchicums and crocus.
- Large pine-apples are there found of a delicious flavour; that species of bromelia always grows solitary among the gramina, like our Colchicum autumnale, while the B. karatas, another species of the same genus, is a social plant, like our whortleberries and heaths. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
- And Tib rises out of that little domestic struggle, covered with glory and crowned with respect; her price so infinitely beyond rubies, that "invaluable" is the only term that can be applied to her; and accordingly Dr. McNab, Mr. Malcolm, and the poor little suffering feverish Dagon himself, unanimously agree that she is invaluable; and the slight rustle of her voluminous silk gown, as she moves across the room to fetch the bottle of colchicum, with the soft slow heavy tread of the elephant, is music to her Dagon's ears. Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
- The Colchicum is much larger with goblet-shaped, fleshy flowers that are resistant to rain and should be planted in midsummer.
- The Colchicum is much larger with goblet-shaped, fleshy flowers that are resistant to rain and should be planted in midsummer.
- [485] Our druggists supply an officinal tincture of Colchicum Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
- The active principle in aloes is aloin; of jalap, jalapin; of white hellebore, veratria; and of colchicum, colchicin. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology