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HELMET FLOWER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite
Synonyms:
Aconitum napellus; helmet flower; helmetflower; monkshood
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("helmet flower" 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)