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monkshood
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun monkshood has 1 sense
- monkshood(n = noun.plant) aconitum napellus, helmet flower, helmetflower - a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite; Array is a kind of aconite
CIDE DICTIONARY
monkshood, n.
A plant of the genus Aconitum ; aconite. See Aconite. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
monkshood, n. Bot. a poisonous garden plant Aconitum napellus, with hood-shaped blue or purple flowers.
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