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Wolfsbane

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Noun

1. aconitum lycoctonum, wolf's bane, wolfbane, wolfsbane

poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock

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Wolfsbane

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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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Wolfsbane

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noun
aconite; esp., a tall Eurasian plant (Aconitum lycoctonum) with showy, yellow flowers

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Wolfsbane

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n.
1. See aconite.
2. A poisonous aconite (Aconitum lycoctonum) of Eurasia, having racemes of usually yellowish flowers.

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