Genus of poisonous plants of temperate regions of northern hemisphere with a vaulted and enlarged petal.
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Examples for "Aconitum "
Examples for "Aconitum "
1 From the root of Aconitum Napellus are prepared a liniment and a tincture.
2 Other related alkaloids are lycaconitine and myoctonine which occur in wolfsbane, Aconitum lycoctonum.
3 It is the Aconitum of medicine, the Monk's-hood or Wolf's-bane' of our ancestors.
4 They put hereinto Eleoselinum, Aconitum , frondes populeas, & Soote.
5 The roots of Aconitum ferox supply the famous Indian (Nepal) poison called bikh, bish or nabee.
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