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An umbelliferous biennial plant (Daucus Carota), of many varieties.

are well developed in the Catskill mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation. See the Diagram under Geology.

A cruciferous plant (Brassica sinapistrum) with yellow flowers; wild mustard. It is troublesome in grain fields. Called also chardock, chardlock, chedlock, and kedlock. Jointed charlock, White charlock, a troublesome weed (Raphanus Raphanistrum) with straw- colored, whitish, or purplish flowers, and jointed pods: wild…

Same as Cheliferous.

tion of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.

Any one of several umbelliferous plants, of the genera Myrrhis, Osmorrhiza, etc.

a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known.

ng and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness, n.

A glucoside extracted from the cambium layer of coniferous trees as a white crystalline substance.

A genus of biennial, poisonous, white-flowered, umbelliferous plants, bearing ribbed fruit ("seeds") and decompound leaves.

A peculiar toothlike fossil of many forms, found especially in carboniferous rocks. Such fossils are supposed by some to be the teeth of marsipobranch fishes, but they are probably the jaws of annelids.

A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oölite; -- called also coral-rag.

producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble.

Producing coral; coraliferous.

A cruciferous herb of certain species of Dentaria; -- called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root.

An umbelliferous plant, the Coriandrum sativum, the fruit or seeds of which have a strong smell and a spicy taste, and in medicine are considered as stomachic and carminative.

An umbelliferous plant of the genus Chærophyllum (C. temulum and C. sylvestre).

A coarse umbelliferous weed of the genus Heracleum (H. sphondylium in England, and H. lanatum in America).

A poisonous umbelliferous plant; in England, the Cicuta virosa; in the United States, the Cicuta maculata and the Archemora rigida. See Water hemlock.

An umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon. [Written also cous.]