MONKSHOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does monkshood mean? 

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

1. a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONKSHOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Aconitum napellus; helmet flower; helmetflower; monkshood

Hypernyms ("monkshood" 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)