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Exercised caution with Mike's poisonous plant
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aconitum
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aconitum \Ac`o*ni"tum\, n. [L. See Aconite .] The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it. Strong As aconitum or rash gunpowder. --Shak. [1913 Webster] ||
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Aconitum , also known as aconite , monkshood , wolf's bane , leopard's bane , mousebane , women's bane , devil's helmet , Queen of all Poisons , or blue rocket , is a genus of over 250 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae . ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it. 2 ''Aconitum'', a genus of plants in the family Ranunculaceae.
Usage examples of aconitum.
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.
The slopes of this hill are covered with the Aconitum Japonicum, of which the Ainos make their arrow poison.
The vines of the clematis tangutica climbed the trellis and the foxglove and aconitum looked hearty and healthy.
Lovingly, she dusted the droopy leaves and parched blossoms of her ailing Aconitum napellus.
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.