wolfsbane Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock
    Aconitum lycoctonum; wolf's bane; wolfbane.

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Wolfs"bane` noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A poisonous plant (Aconitum Lycoctonum), a kind of monkshood; also, by extension, any plant or species of the genus Aconitum. See Aconite.

Webster 1913