Wolfsbane vs. Monkshood

Wolfsbanenoun

Any of several poisonous perennial herbs of the genus Aconitum.

Wolfsbanenoun

A poisonous plant (Aconitum Lycoctonum), a kind of monkshood; also, by extension, any plant or species of the genus Aconitum. See Aconite.

Wolfsbanenoun

poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock

Monkshoodnoun

(countable) Any of various poisonous plants, of the genus Aconitum, with blue or white flowers in the shape of a hood

Monkshoodnoun

(uncountable) The dried leaves or flowers of these plants formerly used as a source of medicinal alkaloids

Monkshoodnoun

A plant of the genus Aconitum; aconite. See Aconite.

Monkshoodnoun

a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite