wolfsbane
/woolfs-beyn/US // ˈwʊlfsˌbeɪn //UK // (ˈwʊlfsˌbeɪn) //
狼牙棒,狼毒,狼疮药,狼烟
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : any of several plants in the aconite genus Aconitum, including A. lycoctonum, bearing stalks of hood-shaped purplish-blue flowers, the monkshood A. napellus, which yields a poisonous alkaloid used medicinally, and numerous garden varieties in various colors.
Examples
There was the awesome efficiency of wolfsbane with its deadly store of aconite.
Dr Stocrk was the first who gave wolfsbane internally, about the year 1762.
The thick or turnip-shaped root is used medicinally and is virulently poisonous, so these plants are sometimes called Wolfsbane.
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