ACONITUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aconitum mean? 

• ACONITUM (noun)
  The noun ACONITUM has 1 sense:

1. genus of poisonous plants of temperate regions of northern hemisphere with a vaulted and enlarged petal

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACONITUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of poisonous plants of temperate regions of northern hemisphere with a vaulted and enlarged petal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Aconitum; genus Aconitum

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

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Aconitum"):

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

Holonyms ("Aconitum" is a member of...):

buttercup family; crowfoot family; family Ranunculaceae; Ranunculaceae (a family of Ranunculaceae)