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Aconite

noun

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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"Aconite" Quotes from Famous Books

... water-drinking. His tongue looked all right, so I decided it was just tiredness and stomach. One of the blankets was dry; we wrapped him up and let him lie quiet, with a wet handkerchief on his eyes, and I gave him a dose of aconite, for fever. (Note 51.) ...

— Pluck on the Long Trail - Boy Scouts in the Rockies • Edwin L. Sabin

... in days gone by, put a paper frill round, and call a nosegay or a posy. There was a lawn for tennis and cricket, a pond planted with irises and bulrushes, and a wild corner where crocuses and coltsfoot and golden aconite came up as they liked in the ...

— The Luckiest Girl in the School • Angela Brazil

... of these phials he extracted two tiny globules. "There," said he, "open your mouth, put those on the tip of your tongue. They will lower the pulse, check the fever. Be better presently, but should not travel, want rest; you should be in bed. Aconite! Henbane! hum! Your papa is of fair complexion,—a timid character, I should say;—a horror of ...

— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Words linked to "Aconite" : helmet flower, wolfsbane, monkshood, poisonous plant, genus Aconitum, wolf's bane, wolfbane, Aconitum napellus, Aconitum lycoctonum, helmetflower, Aconitum