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Wolfsbane   Listen
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Wolfsbane  n.  (Bot.) A poisonous plant (Aconitum Lycoctonum), a kind of monkshood; also, by extension, any plant or species of the genus Aconitum. See Aconite.






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"Wolfsbane" Quotes from Famous Books



... father-in-law from the son-in-law; good feeling, too, between brothers is a rarity. The husband is eager for the death of the wife, she {for that} of her husband. Horrible stepmothers {then} mingle the ghastly wolfsbane; the son prematurely makes inquiry[34] into the years of his father. Piety lies vanquished, and the virgin Astraea[35] is the last of the heavenly {Deities} to abandon the Earth, {now} ...
— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Vol. I, Books I-VII • Publius Ovidius Naso



Words linked to "Wolfsbane" :   Aconitum lycoctonum, wolfbane



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