wolfbane

1. 1.

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

   Synonymswolfsbanewolf's baneAconitum lycoctonum

   Broaderaconite

Other forms of wolfbane

plural

wolfbanes·

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 wolfbane

What does wolfbane mean?

wolfbane means "poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock".

How many syllables are in wolfbane?

wolfbane has 2 syllables: wolf-bane. The stress falls on "wolf".

What is another word for wolfbane?

Close synonyms include wolfsbane, wolf's bane, Aconitum lycoctonum. 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 wolfbane a common word?

wolfbane 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.