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monkshood

monks·hood
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [muhngks-hoo d]
    • /ˈmʌŋksˌhʊd/
    • /ˈmʌŋkshʊd/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [muhngks-hoo d]
    • /ˈmʌŋksˌhʊd/

Definitions of monkshood word

  • noun monkshood a plant belonging to the genus Aconitum, of the buttercup family, especially A. napellus, the flowers of which have a large, hood-shaped sepal. 1
  • noun monkshood An aconite with blue or purple flowers. The upper sepal of the flower covers the topmost petals, giving a hoodlike appearance. 1
  • noun monkshood any of several poisonous N temperate plants of the ranunculaceous genus Aconitum, esp A. napellus, that have hooded blue-purple flowers 0
  • noun monkshood aconite 0
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Origin of monkshood

First appearance:

before 1570
One of the 33% oldest English words
1570-80; monk + 's1 + hood1

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Parts of speech for Monkshood

noun
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monkshood popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 54% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
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Related words

  • aconite

    any of various N temperate plants of the ranunculaceous genus Aconitum, such as monkshood and wolfsbane, many of which are poisonous

  • buttercup family

    the plant family Ranunculaceae, typified by mostly herbaceous plants having usually alternate leaves, multistaminate flowers sometimes lacking petals but with colorful sepals, and including the anemone, buttercup, clematis, columbine, delphinium, and monkshood.

  • galea

    Botany. a part of the calyx or corolla having the form of a helmet, as the upper lip of the corolla of the monkshood.

  • wild monkshood

    a plant, Aconitum uncinatum, of the buttercup family, native to the eastern central U.S., having roundish leaves and hooded, blue flowers, growing in rich, moist soil.

  • wolfsbane

    any of several plants in the aconite genus Aconitum, including A. lycoctonum, bearing stalks of hood-shaped purplish-blue flowers, the monkshood A. napellus, which yields a poisonous alkaloid used medicinally, and numerous garden varieties in various colors.
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