Webster's 1828 Dictionary
CICUTA
n.Water-hemlock, a plant whose root is poisonous. This term was used by the ancients and by medical writers for the Conium maculatum, or common hemlock, the expressed juice of which was used as a common poison. Socrates and Phocion perished by it. It is now used medicinally in moderate doses, with good effect.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
CICUTA
Ci *cu "ta, n. Etym: [L., the poison hemlock. ] (Bot. )
Defn: a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known.
Note: The name cicuta is sometimes erroneously applied to Conium maculatum, or officinal hemlock.
Spanish Dictionary
cicuta
cicuta nombre femenino 1 Planta de tallo rollizo, estriado, hueco y muy ramoso en lo alto, hojas blandas, pequeñas, de forma triangular y flores blancas, agrupadas en umbela; todas sus partes son tóxicas y puede causar la muerte por ingestión .2 Veneno que se obtiene de esta planta :Sócrates fue condenado a beber cicuta bajo el pretexto de que no creía en los dioses de la polis .
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