Autumn Crocus Word Hoard

• Purple
• Bulb
• Seed
• Poisonous
• Lanceolate: shaped like the head of a lance; of a narrow oval shape tapering to a point at each end
• Autumn
• Perennial
• Meadows
• Colchicaceae
• Plant
• Europe
• Gout: a specifict constitutional disease occurring in paroxysms, usually hereditary and in male subjects; characterized by painful inflammation of the smaller joints, especially that of the great toe, and the deposition of sodium urate in the from of chalk-stones; it often spreads to the larger joints and the internal organs.
• Therapeutic
• Bloom
• Petal
• Solitude
• Colchicine: a poisonous alkaloid that inhabits mitosis, is extracted from the corms or seeds of the autumn crocus, and is used especially in the treatment of gout and to produce polyploidy in plants
• Flower
• Toxin
• Absorption