Associations to the word «Monkshood»
Adjective
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Wiktionary
MONKSHOOD, noun. (countable) Any of various poisonous plants, of the genus Aconitum, with blue or white flowers in the shape of a hood
MONKSHOOD, noun. (uncountable) The dried leaves or flowers of these plants formerly used as a source of medicinal alkaloids
Dictionary definition
MONKSHOOD, noun. A poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.