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Monkshood

noun

A poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite. Synonyms: Aconitum napellus, helmet flower, helmetflower.

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... monkshood).—Root and leaves. Poisonous property depends upon an alkaloid, aconitine. Aconite is one of the constituents ...

— Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology • W. G. Aitchison Robertson

... long moss a-glitter with wild flowers, poppies, harebells, monkshood, and a host of sub-Arctic species, brought the lad to the top of the hill. There he paused a moment, to look over the island, treeless save for dwarf willows six inches high and a ground-dwelling form of crowberry. Below him, and some distance away, were the sea-lions, but even from that coign ...

— The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

... over and they were to be in school in ten days' time again. After luncheon and a good rest on the wooden bench outside the door, they began to stroll towards the Daubensee, along a path between desolate boulders, without vegetation, except a small kind of monkshood. ...

— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge

Words linked to "Monkshood" : aconite, helmet flower, helmetflower, Aconitum napellus