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Monkshood

noun
1.
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" Quotes from Famous Books



... henbane is taken? 1060. What name is sometimes improperly given to conium, or hemlock? How was this narcotic poison used by the Athenians? How are the effects of an over-dose counteracted? 1061. What is the treatment when an over-dose of deadly nightshade, monkshood, foxglove, bittersweet, gamboge, lobelia, bloodroot, tobacco, &c., is taken? 1062. Should a physician be called in all cases ...
— A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) • Calvin Cutter

... and a strange, broken blue, gorgeous and intense, yet impure, glittering on the surface as if it were strewn with broken glass, and stained or darkening irregularly into red. And then at last the serpent charm changes the ranunculus into monkshood, and makes it poisonous. It enters into the forget-me-not, and the star of heavenly turquoise is corrupted into the viper's bugloss, darkened with the same strange red as the larkspur, and fretted into a fringe ...
— The Queen of the Air • John Ruskin



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



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