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Definition of Aconitum
1. Noun. Genus of poisonous plants of temperate regions of northern hemisphere with a vaulted and enlarged petal.
Generic synonyms: Magnoliid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Buttercup Family, Crowfoot Family, Family Ranunculaceae, Ranunculaceae
Member holonyms: Aconite
Definition of Aconitum
1. n. The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it.
Definition of Aconitum
1. Noun. The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it. ¹
2. Noun. A genus of plants in the family Ranunculaceae. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aconitum
1. aconite [n -S] - See also: aconite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aconitum
Literary usage of Aconitum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and ...by Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1754)
"CBP Wolfs-bane with a Flower variegated from blue to white. 15. aconitum ... С.
В Р. Wolfs-bane with a very large purple-blue Flower. 1.9. aconitum ..."
2. Drugs and medicines of North America: A Publication Devoted to the by John Uri Lloyd, Curtis Gates Lloyd (1885)
"aconitum Fischeri and aconitum napellus, comparison physiologically, 231.
aconitum Fischeri, chemical analysis of, 227. aconitum ..."
3. A Clinical materia medica by Ernest Albert Farrington (1897)
"aconitum napellus is the monkshood. Aconite itself means without dust. ...
aconitum napellus contains an active principle called Aconitine, crystalline in ..."
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