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wolfsbane

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. Any of several poisonous perennial herbs of the genus ''Aconitum''. n. Any of several poisonous perennial herbs of the genus ''Aconitum''.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Wolfsbane was the 1994 third eponymous album from British heavy metal band Wolfsbane . Not long after the album's release, vocalist Blaze Bayley took over Bruce Dickinson 's position as the lead vocalist for Iron Maiden . It would end up becoming Wolfsbane's ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"aconite" (especially Aconitum lycoctonum ), a somewhat poisonous plant, 1540s, from wolf + bane ; a translation of Latin lycoctonum , from Greek lykotonon , from lykos "wolf" + base of kteinein "to kill." Also known dialectally as badger's bane , hare's ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock [syn: wolfbane , wolf's bane , Aconitum lycoctonum ]

Usage examples of wolfsbane.

Julia slowly got herself up and stood beside him, heavily leaning on Wolfsbane for support.

It reached for Julia with a clawed hand, and Wolfsbane gleamed brightly as it sliced clean through the mummified flesh.

Even in the dim light, Rupert could see that Wolfsbane had laid the hand open to the bone.

The creature released its hold and fell back into the pit, taking Flarebright and Wolfsbane with it.

It was the wolfsbane that caused him to look constantly feverish and sluggish.

What if he was mentally unstable and the wolfsbane was the only brew that kept him manageable?

I pushed the periscope back in, then dropped the wolfsbane in and the garlic.

January wolfsbane and their usual quality of lunar stones, and even the most incredulous among us had seen the glass cover of the coffin fog over from the vapor of her breath and we had seen living and fragrant perspiration coming from her pores, and we saw her smile.

Then I took a drop of every poisonhemlock, wolfsbane, mandragora, cherry seed pulp, brews of berries and bushes and roots, the Death Cap mushroom and the white-spotted red mushroomyes, Gordius, I took them all!

A rich harvest of herbs grew beyond the alder, and until it grew too dark to see he plucked saxifrage, chervil, and wolfsbane.

She hadn't felt like such a dismal failure since she'd accidentally poisoned one of her mother's paramours with a love potion concocted of rotted eggs and wolfsbane.

You're supposed to grow poison oak and snakeroot and wolfsbane, not lilacs.

She stood on a grassy knoll sprinkled with sweet cicely, milk-white snowdrops, and the poisonous blue of wolfsbane, such a lovely flower that anyone might be forgiven for thinking it had some fine virtue when in fact it was deadly.

She had woven them with her own hands out of wolfsbane and turnsole, and still nursed blisters on her palms and fingers.