monkshood

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monkshood - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Monkshood \Monks"hood`\, n. (Bot.)
     A plant of the genus Aconitum; aconite. See Aconite.
     [1913 Webster]

monkshood - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  monkshood
      n 1: a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded
           blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield
           aconite [syn: monkshood, helmetflower, helmet flower,
           Aconitum napellus]