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WOLFBANE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wolfbane mean? 

WOLFBANE (noun)
  The noun WOLFBANE has 1 sense:

1. poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstockplay

  Familiarity information: WOLFBANE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WOLFBANE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Aconitum lycoctonum; wolf's bane; wolfbane; wolfsbane

Hypernyms ("wolfbane" is a kind of...):

aconite (any of various usually poisonous plants of the genus Aconitum having tuberous roots and palmately lobed leaves and blue or white flowers)


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