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ACONITE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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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Nouns denoting plants

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

poisonous plant (a plant that when touched or ingested in sufficient quantity can be harmful or fatal to an organism)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aconite"):

Aconitum napellus; helmet flower; helmetflower; monkshood (a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite)

Aconitum lycoctonum; wolf's bane; wolfbane; wolfsbane (poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock)

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

Aconitum; genus Aconitum (genus of poisonous plants of temperate regions of northern hemisphere with a vaulted and enlarged petal)

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