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WOLFSBANE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wolfsbane mean?
• WOLFSBANE (noun)
The noun WOLFSBANE has 1 sense:
1. poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock
Familiarity information: WOLFSBANE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("wolfsbane" 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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