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colchicum

colchicum noun: any of several flowers of the genus Colchicum.

colchicum: any of several flowers of the genus Colchicum
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Noun

colchicum (countable and uncountable, plural colchicums)

  1. (countable) Any of several flowers of the genus Colchicum.
  2. (uncountable) The dried seed of the poisonous meadow saffron, Colchicum autumnale, used medicinally.
    • Book VI deals with surgery, including an account of tracheotomy, and a final long book is taken up with drugs, including the use of colchicum for gout.1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 87

colchicum meaning in Tamil and Arabic

colchicum in Tamil

கொல்சிக்கம்

colchicum in Arabic

Colchicum-genus plant
لَحْلَاح laḥlāḥ

Forms of colchicum

pluralcolchicums

Origin of colchicum

Borrowed from translingual Colchicum, from Latin colchicum, from Ancient Greek κολχικόν (kolkhikón).

Questions about colchicum

What does colchicum mean?
Colchicum means any of several flowers of the genus Colchicum.
What is colchicum in Tamil?
Colchicum in Tamil is கொல்சிக்கம். See Colchicum meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is colchicum?
Colchicum is a noun.
What is the plural of colchicum?
The plural of colchicum is colchicums.

Words near colchicum in the dictionary

  1. colchicines
  2. colchicinize
  3. colchicinized
  4. colchicinoid
  5. colchicinoids
  6. colchicum
  7. colchicums
  8. Colchidian
  9. Colchis
  10. colchizine
  11. Colclasure

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colchicum (page history and authors); colchicum (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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