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Aconite

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Various, usually poisonous perennial herbs of the genus Aconitum, having

tuberous roots, palmately lobed leaves, blue or white flowers with large

hoodlike upper sepals, and an aggregate of follicles. The dried leaves

and roots of these plants yield a poisonous alkaloid that was formerly

used medicinally. Also called monkshood, wolfsbane.



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