spotted cowbane

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   tall biennial water hemlock of northeastern North America having purple-spotted stems and clusters of extremely poisonous tuberous roots resembling small sweet potatoes

   Synonymsspotted hemlockspotted water hemlock

   Broaderpoisonous plant

   Part ofCicuta

Questions about spotted cowbane

What does spotted cowbane mean?

spotted cowbane means "tall biennial water hemlock of northeastern North America having purple-spotted stems and clusters of extremely poisonous tuberous roots resembling small sweet potatoes".

What is another word for spotted cowbane?

Close synonyms include spotted hemlock, spotted water hemlock. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spotted cowbane a common word?

spotted cowbane is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.