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colchicums

colchicums is the plural of colchicum.

Meaning of colchicum

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

Questions about colchicums

What is colchicums the plural of?
Colchicums is the plural of colchicum.

Words near colchicums in the dictionary

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

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