Colchicum

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 22

kol′chi-kum, n. a genus of Liliaceæ —the meadow saffron, its corm or seed used for gout and rheumatism. [L.,—Gr. col chicon , meadow saffron— Colchicus , relating to Colchis , the native country of the sorcere Medea.]