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Active
adjective · 78% connection
In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: active, principle, water, hemlock, cicuta.
Asp
noun · 78% connection
A small, hooded, poisonous serpent of Egypt and adjacent countries, whose bite is often fatal. It is the Naja haje. The name is also a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: active, principle, water, hemlock, cicuta.
Calendulin
noun · 78% connection
A gummy or mucilaginous tasteless substance obtained from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to bassorin.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: active, principle, water, hemlock, cicuta.
Calumbin
noun · 78% connection
A bitter principle extracted as a white crystalline substance from the calumba root.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: active, principle, water, hemlock, cicuta.
Caoutchouc
noun · 78% connection
A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: active, principle, water, hemlock, cicuta.
Cerasin
noun · 78% connection
A gummy mucilaginous substance; -- called also bassorin, tragacanthin, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: active, principle, water, hemlock, cicuta.
Cicuta
noun · 78% connection
a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: active, principle, water, hemlock, cicuta.
Colocynthin
noun · 78% connection
The active medicinal principle of colocynth; a bitter, yellow, crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: active, principle, water, hemlock, cicuta.
Conhydrine
noun · 78% connection
A vegetable alkaloid found with conine in the poison hemlock (Conium maculatum). It is a white crystalline substance, C8H17NO, easily…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: active, principle, water, hemlock, cicuta.
Conine
noun · 78% connection
A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock (Conium maculatum) and extracted as a colorless oil, C8H17N, of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: active, principle, water, hemlock, cicuta.
Conium
noun · 78% connection
The common hemlock (Conium maculatum, poison hemlock, spotted hemlock, poison parsley), a roadside weed of Europe, Asia, and America,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: active, principle, water, hemlock, cicuta.
Convallamarin
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline, poisonous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the lily of the valley (Convallaria Majalis). Its t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: active, principle, water, hemlock, cicuta.
Convolvulin
noun · 78% connection
A glucoside occurring in jalap (the root of a convolvulaceous plant), and extracted as a colorless, tasteless, gummy mass of powerful…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: active, principle, water, hemlock, cicuta.
Cowbane
noun · 78% connection
A poisonous umbelliferous plant; in England, the Cicuta virosa; in the United States, the Cicuta maculata and the Archemora rigida. Se…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: active, principle, water, hemlock, cicuta.
Curcumin
noun · 78% connection
The coloring principle of turmeric, or curcuma root, extracted as an orange yellow crystalline substance, C14H14O4, with a green fluor…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: active, principle, water, hemlock, cicuta.
Dextrin
noun · 78% connection
A translucent, gummy, amorphous substance, nearly tasteless and odorless, used as a substitute for gum, for sizing, etc., and obtained…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: active, principle, water, hemlock, cicuta.
Echidnine
noun · 78% connection
The clear, viscid fluid secreted by the poison glands of certain serpents; also, a nitrogenous base contained in this, and supposed to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: active, principle, water, hemlock, cicuta.
Elater
noun · 78% connection
The active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica E…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: active, principle, water, hemlock, cicuta.
