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WOLFBANE

Dictionary entry overview: What does wolfbane mean?

• WOLFBANE (noun)
The noun WOLFBANE has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: WOLFBANE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• WOLFBANE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Aconitum lycoctonum; wolf's bane; wolfbane; wolfsbane

Hypernyms ("wolfbane" is a kind of...):

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

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