aconitum napellus

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

   Synonymsmonkshoodhelmetflowerhelmet flower

   Broaderaconite

Questions about aconitum napellus

What does aconitum napellus mean?

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

What is another word for aconitum napellus?

Close synonyms include monkshood, helmetflower, helmet flower. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aconitum napellus a common word?

aconitum napellus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.