Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See aconite.
- n. Any of several poisonous perennial herbs of the genus Aconitum, especially A. lycoctonum, native to northern Europe, having broad rounded leaves, elongate racemes, and light purple flowers.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A. plant of the genus Aconitum; aconite or monk's-hood; specifically, A. lycoctonum, the yellow or yellow-flowered wolf's bane, also called badger's-, bear's-, or hare's-bane. It is found widely in Europe, especially in mountains. Its greenish-yellow flowers have the hood developed like an extinguisher; its poison is less virulent than that of other species.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of several poisonous perennial herbs of the genus Aconitum.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A poisonous plant (Aconitum Lycoctonum), a kind of monkshood; also, by extension, any plant or species of the genus Aconitum. See aconite.
WordNet 3.0
- n. poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock
- n. poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock
Etymologies
- From wolf + bane, calque of Ancient Greek λυκοκτόνον (lukoktonon), from λύκος (lukos, "wolf") + κτείνω (kteinō, "I kill"). Influenced by Latin lycoctonum. (Wiktionary)
Examples
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“The appreciative audience really fueled the energy -- the first row in particular howling with laughter, so much so that Jane the Housekeeper Anderson threw a sprig of "wolfsbane" to the woman who was laughing so hard in the first row.”
“But I do not dig graves, only cradles, for wolfsbane and moonflower, evening primrose and columbine.”
“If Erec took Wolfboy along, he would have to bring some wolfsbane to protect himself.”
“Erec held the vial of laughter in one hand, and each of them carried some of the wolfsbane.”
“He found the wolfsbane on the W shelf and grabbed a handful to put in a bag.”
“Erec found a bag for the yellow-flowered wolfsbane and put it into his backpack along with the vial of laughter and the Nitrowisherine.”
“Erec rooted through his backpack and found the clump of wolfsbane he had brought with him.”
““Good thing you brought that wolfsbane,” Jack said.”
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The Purist Dictionary.
Madeupical or revitalized Old English forms for words of non-Germanic origin. For all of these terms exists a normal English equivalent beginning with "a" (e.g....aitrow, ameetend, angbreast, Anglonish, assgang, atbraidingly, atterloathe, at-wonder, atyield, awendbere, bear out, beebane and 217 more...
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