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monk's-hood, monkshood|ˈmʌŋkshʊd|
[Named from resemblance of form.]
1. A plant of the genus Aconitum, esp. Aconitum Napellus.[Cf. Du. monnikskap (early mod.Du. ‘Munckskappekens, aconitum, hecatheis, vulgo cappa vel cucullus monachi’, Kilian), Ger. mönchskappe.] 1578Lyte Dodoens iii. lxxix. 427 Blew Woolfs bane, or Monkes Hoode,..is small... The flowers be as litle hoodes. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. ccclx. 823 This kind of Woolfs bane, called Napellus verus, in English, Helmet flower, or the great Munks hood. 1629Parkinson Parad. 215 Napellus verus flore cæruleo, Blew Helmet flower or Monkes hood. 1634T. Johnson tr. Parey's Wks. 805 The juice, fruit, and substance of Napellus [marg. or Monks-hood] taken inwardly, killeth a man the same day. 1845–50A. H. Lincoln Lect. Bot. 31 Such plants as have horned or hooded nectaries, as the Columbine and Monk's-hood, are mostly poisonous. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. ii. 130 Monkshood is very poisonous, and the root has been mistaken for Horse⁓radish,..with fatal result.
2. Applied to species of the genus Delphinium (Larkspur); also, to Dielytra Cucullaria (Treas. Bot. 1866).
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. ccccxxvi. 924 In English Larkes spur..and Munkes hoode. 1629Parkinson Parad. Table, Monkes hoode, or Larkes spurs. 1678Phillips, Monkeshood, a kind of flower called in Latin Consolida Regalis.
†3. Anat. The trapezius muscle. Obs.
1615Crooke Body of Man 773 The second is called Cucullaris or the Monkes-hood..Galen calleth it Trapezius or the Table-muscle. 1683Snape Anat. Horse iv. xxii. (1686) 193 The Cucullaris or Monk's Hood.
4. monkshood moth, book-name for Plusia moneta, which lives on the plant monkshood.
1882W. F. Kirby Europ. Butterfl. & M. (1903) Plate xli. |