Aconitum (redirected from Devil's helmet)

Ac`o`ni´tum

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The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it. Strong As aconitum or rash gunpowder. - Shak.

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Aconitum - genus of poisonous plants of temperate regions of northern hemisphere with a vaulted and enlarged petal genus Aconitum magnoliid dicot genus - genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms buttercup family, crowfoot family, family Ranunculaceae, Ranunculaceae - a family of Ranunculaceae aconite - any of various usually poisonous plants of the genus Aconitum having tuberous roots and palmately lobed leaves and blue or white flowers