cowbane

English

Etymology

From cow +‎ bane.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaʊbeɪn/

Noun

cowbane (usually uncountable, plural cowbanes)

1. Any of several related poisonous plants of the genus Cicuta
2. Cicuta virosa, type species of this genus.

Synonyms

• (plant in Cicuta): water hemlock, poison parsnip
• (Cicuta virosa): northern water hemlock

Translations

plant of the genus Cicuta

• Armenian: մոլեխինդ (hy) (molexind)
• Czech: rozpuk jízlivý m
• Danish: gifttyde c
• Dutch: waterscheerling (nl)
• Finnish: keiso (fi)
• French: ciguë aquatique (fr) f
• Galician: cicuta (gl) f
• German: Wasserschierling (de) m
• Japanese: ドクゼリ (dokuzeri)
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: selsnepe c

  Norwegian Nynorsk: selsnepe f

• Polish: szalej (pl) m
• Romanian: cucută-de-apă (ro) f
• Russian: вёх (ru) m (vjox)
• Swedish: sprängört (sv) c
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

Cicuta virosa

• Bulgarian: цикута отровна f (cikuta otrovna)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毒芹 (zh) (dúqín)

• Finnish: myrkkykeiso (fi)
• German: Wasserschierling (de) m, Gift-Wasserschierling m, Wüterich (de) m
• Polish: szalej (pl) m, szalej jadowity m, cykuta (pl) f, wiech (pl) m, wioch m
• Russian: вёх ядови́тый m (vjox jadovítyj), цику́та (ru) f (cikúta)
• Shuswap: aynícw
• Turkish: su baldıranı (tr)
• Welsh: buladd m

Further reading

• cowbane on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cicuta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia