monkshood

[ muhngks-hood ]

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noun

a plant belonging to the genus Aconitum, of the buttercup family, especially A. napellus, the flowers of which have a large, hood-shaped sepal.

monkshood

/ ˈmʌŋkshʊd /

any of several poisonous N temperate plants of the ranunculaceous genus Aconitum, esp A. napellus, that have hooded blue-purple flowers

1570–80; monk + 's 1 + hood ¹

Monkshood (Aconitum Napellus) grows four feet high, and has a beautiful blossom of rich blue growing in quite large clusters.

Added to his other accomplishments, Mr. Monkshood was a poet.

There are numbers of the pink and the saxifrage families, white and purple monkshood, purple asters, and goldenrod.

Monkshood grew there, also black and yellow clematis, rhubarb, ranunculus and primulas of different kinds.

So the hollow spur-shaped petals of Columbine were called nectaries; also the curious long-clawed petals of Monkshood, 87, &c.

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