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Monkshood

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. See aconite.

n. A slender, erect, poisonous perennial herb (Aconitum napellus) native to northern Europe, having violet flowers and whose dried leaves and roots yield aconite.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Any of various poisonous plants, of the genus Aconitum, with blue or white flowers in the shape of a hood

n. The dried leaves or flowers of these plants formerly used as a source of medicinal alkaloids

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A plant of the genus Aconitum; aconite. See aconite.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A plant of the genus Aconitum, especially A. Napellus. Also called friar's-cap, foxbane, helmet-flower, Jacob's-chariot, and wolf's-bane. See Aconitum and aconite.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite

Word Usage

"Water slipped by and beneath it, enough to send a trickle on down, but in the shade, a large, still pool had formed, and by its side long stalks of monkshood bent under the weight of their blue flowers."

Hypernym

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aconite

Cross Reference

Aconitum

Variant

aconite

Synonym

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aconite wolfsbane

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