ETYM Latin aconitum, Greek: cf. French aconit.
Any of various usually poisonous plants of the genus Aconitum having tuberous roots and palmately lobed leaves and blue or white flowers.
The monk's-hood or wolf's-bane plant.

Genus of poisonous plants of temperate regions of northern hemisphere; Also called: genus Aconitum.

A poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite

Poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock; SYN. wolfbane, wolf's bane, Aconitum lycoctonum.