aconite

1. 1.

   any of various usually poisonous plants of the genus Aconitum having tuberous roots and palmately lobed leaves and blue or white flowers

   Broaderpoisonous plant

   Narrowermonkshoodwolfsbane

   Part ofAconitum

Other forms of aconite

plural

aconites·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about aconite

What does aconite mean?

aconite means "any of various usually poisonous plants of the genus Aconitum having tuberous roots and palmately lobed leaves and blue or white flowers".

How many syllables are in aconite?

aconite has 3 syllables: a-co-nite. The stress falls on "a".

Is aconite a common word?

aconite is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.