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monkshood

/muhngks-hood/US // ˈmʌŋksˌhʊd //UK // (ˈmʌŋkshʊd) //

僧人的身份,僧人,僧人的地位,僧人的故事

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a plant belonging to the genus Aconitum, of the buttercup family, especially A. napellus, the flowers of which have a large, hood-shaped sepal.

Examples

  • Monkshood (Aconitum Napellus) grows four feet high, and has a beautiful blossom of rich blue growing in quite large clusters.

  • Added to his other accomplishments, Mr. Monkshood was a poet.

  • There are numbers of the pink and the saxifrage families, white and purple monkshood, purple asters, and goldenrod.

  • Monkshood grew there, also black and yellow clematis, rhubarb, ranunculus and primulas of different kinds.

  • So the hollow spur-shaped petals of Columbine were called nectaries; also the curious long-clawed petals of Monkshood, 87, &c.