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A poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers
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monkshood
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also monk's-hood , 1570s, from monk (n.) + hood (n.1). So called for the shape of the flowers.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) Any of various poisonous plants, of the genus ''Aconitum'', with blue or white flowers in the shape of a hood 2 (context uncountable English) The dried leaves or flowers of these plants formerly used as a source of medicinal ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite [syn: helmetflower , helmet flower , Aconitum napellus ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monkshood \Monks"hood`\, n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Aconitum ; aconite. See Aconite .
Usage examples of monkshood.
There was also a square of green for bleaching clothes, a gean tree, a plot of gillyflowers and monkshood, and another of precious herbs like clary, penny-royal, and marjoram.
Theo, have no doubt that after a few months as an unhappy guest of Lord Monkshood and his parliamentary constables I would wind up in a lime pit somewhere, or a furnace.
She selected bags of sage leaves and chamomile flowers, ground monkshood rootstock and leaves, then a small sachet of anise flowers.
She dropped the poisonous monkshood rootstock and leaves into her burner, then took out her rose quartz.
Whenever he rooted himself in a meadow of buttercups and poppies, or amidst purple monkshood and the peering, sightless faces of field pansies, or within sight of sweet pink clover and tufted violet vetch and sunny ragwort, it appeared at first that here was simply a gratuitous explosion of loveliness, to daze the bees and butterflies.
Pipichari has given me a small quantity of the poisonous paste, and has also taken me to see the plant from the root of which it is made, the Aconitum Japonicum, a monkshood, whose tall spikes of blue flowers are brightening the brushwood in all directions.
A quick glance showed that the gardenia had easily overpowered vanilla, cinnamon, bayberry, lilac, belladonna, monkshood, pholiotina, and yohimbe.
But your stomach contents and blood analysis showed monkshood as well as baneberry.
A little extract of monkshood, a few shoots of yew or perhaps a couple of hemlock seeds in the saucehow do you fancy that?
There were no bellflowers, rampions, worts, groundsels, daisies, lilies, saxifrages, pinks, monkshoods, or beautiful little edelweiss to ease the bitter cold monotony of the freezing fields of winter.
Pipichari has given me a small quantity of the poisonous paste, and has also taken me to see the plant from the root of which it is made, the Aconitum Japonicum, a monkshood, whose tall spikes of blue flowers are brightening the brushwood in all directions.
Setting aside the possibility of death by asphyxiation, Susanna finally narrowed her suspects down to three: monkshood, cowbane, and henbane.
Their monastery is still standing today and over its entrance gate the stone crest: a poisonous plant with five blue petals, the uppermost of which resembles a monk's hood -- the Aconitum napellus or blue monkshood.
According to Deke, she had been poisoned by a complex organic doku, a toxin, usually lethal, whose main elements had been distilled from monkshood and the poison in fugu, Japanese blowfish.
There ere no bellflowers, rampions, worts, groundsels, daisies, lilies, saxi aees, pinks, monkshoods, or beautiful little edelweiss to ease the fcter cold monotony of the freezing fields of winter.