noun
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The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; any plant of the genus Aconitum, all the species of which are poisonous.
definition
An extract or tincture obtained from Aconitum napellus, used as a poison and medicinally.
Examples of aconites in a Sentence
Kronfeld has shown that aconites are dependent for this on the visits of a Bombus and cannot exist outside the area where it occurs.
Nearly all the species of plants which grow on these prairies are common to Europe (paeonics, Hemerocallis, asters, pinks, gentians, violets, Cypripedium, Aquilegia, Delphinium, aconites, irises and so on), but here the plants attain a much greater size; a man standing erect is often hidden by the grasses.
As garden plants the aconites are very ornamental, hardy perennials.
Japaconitine, obtained from the Japanese aconites, known locally as "kuza-uzu," hydrolyses to japbenzaconine, which further breaks down to benzoic acid and japaconine.
In the New Year the bare twigs make a bright tracery above clumps of snowdrops and yellow winter aconites.