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单词 wolfsbane
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wolfsbane

[ woolfs-beyn ]
/ ˈwʊlfsˌbeɪn /

noun

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.

Origin of wolfsbane

1540–50; wolf + 's1 + bane

Words nearby wolfsbane

wolframate, wolframic, wolframite, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Wolf-Rayet star, wolfsbane, Wolfsburg, wolf spider, wolf whistle, Wollaston, wollastonite
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Example sentences from the Web for wolfsbane

  • There was the awesome efficiency of wolfsbane with its deadly store of aconite.

    The Status Civilization|Robert Sheckley

British Dictionary definitions for wolfsbane

wolfsbane

wolf's-bane

/ (ˈwʊlfsˌbeɪn) /

noun

any of several poisonous N temperate plants of the ranunculaceous genus Aconitum, esp A. lycoctonum, which has yellow hoodlike flowers
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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