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cowbane

noun
/ˈkaʊbeɪn/

Etymology

From cow + bane.

  1. inherited from *gʷʰen-✻ — “to slay, kill; to strike”
  2. inherited from *banô✻ — “killer, murderer, slayer; death, bane”
  3. inherited from *banō✻
  4. inherited from bana — “person or thing that causes death, murderer”
  5. inherited from bane — “person or thing that destroys life, murderer, slayer; person who destroys the soul; destruction of life, death, doom; poison”
  6. compounded as cowbane — “cow + bane”

Definitions

  1. Any of several related poisonous plants of the genus Cicuta

  2. northern water hemlock (Cicuta virosa), type species of this genus.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cowbane. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA