单词 | wolfs-bane |
释义 | wolf's-banewolfbanen. A plant of the genus Aconitum, esp. A. lycoctonum, with dull yellow flowers, occurring in mountainous regions in Europe. Also applied to Arnica montana ( winter wolf's-bane), and to the winter aconite, Eranthis hyemalis. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > [noun] > aconite or wolf's bane monk's cowl1548 wolf's-bane1548 flint-wort1567 libardine1567 aconite1569 wolf's-wort1575 napellus1576 monkshood1578 napelo1580 helmet-flower1597 scorpion1601 napell1605 wolfwort1611 monk's-head1682 panther's bane1712 blue rocketa1825 bikh1830 friar's cap1830 fox-bane1840 Turk's cap1854 Adam and Eve1879 face-in-hood1886 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. A.vv The other kynde [of Aconitum] is called Lycoctonum, & in englishe it maye be called wolfes bayne. But this kynde is deuided into two other kyndes, of whiche..the one..may be called in englishe monkes coule or blewe wolfsbaine. The other kinde..maye be called in Englishe yelowe wolfesbayn. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. lxxix. 427 Blew Woolfs bane, or Monkes Hoode,..is small... The flowers be as litle hoodes. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 823 This kind of Woolfs bane called Napellus verus, in English Helmet flower, or the great Munks hood. 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole xxvi. 216 Most Herbarists call it Aconitum hyemale, and we in English thereafter, Winters Wolfesbane. 1656 W. Coles Art of Simpling 66 The Oyntment that Witches use is reported to be made..of the Juices of Smallage, Woolfsbaine and Cinquefoyle. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 332. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxi. 304 Wholesome Wolfsbane [sc. Aconitum Anthora]..has five capsules,..and the flowers are sulphur-coloured. 1820 J. Keats Ode on Melancholy in Lamia & Other Poems 140 Go not to Lethe, neither twist Wolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine. 1845 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. ii. 24 A. uncinatum. American Wolf's-Bane. 1856–60 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. 13 Aconitum reclinatum. Trailing Wolfsbane. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1235/2. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1548 |
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