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Aconitum   Listen
noun
Aconitum  n.  The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it. "Strong As aconitum or rash gunpowder."





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... Ranunculus, the sepals in Helleborus, Anemone, etc., and the stamens in most species of Thalictrum. In all these we have a simple regular flower, but in Aquilegia it is made complex by the spurred petals, and in Delphinium and Aconitum it becomes quite irregular. In the more simple class self-fertilisation occurs freely, but it is prevented in the more complex flowers by the stamens maturing before the pistil. In the Caprifoliaceae ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace
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Words linked to "Aconitum" :   magnoliid dicot genus, crowfoot family, Aconitum napellus, family Ranunculaceae, aconite, buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, Aconitum lycoctonum


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