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wolfsbane
[ woolfs-beyn ]
noun
- any of several plants in the aconite genus Aconitum, including A. lycoctonum, bearing stalks of hood-shaped purplish-blue flowers, the monkshood A. napellus, which yields a poisonous alkaloid used medicinally, and numerous garden varieties in various colors.
wolfsbane
/ ˈwʊlfsˌbeɪn /
noun
- any of several poisonous N temperate plants of the ranunculaceous genus Aconitum, esp A. lycoctonum, which has yellow hoodlike flowers
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There was the awesome efficiency of wolfsbane with its deadly store of aconite.
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Dr Stocrk was the first who gave wolfsbane internally, about the year 1762.
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The thick or turnip-shaped root is used medicinally and is virulently poisonous, so these plants are sometimes called Wolfsbane.
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