noun
- a tall poisonous plant with blue or purple helmet-shaped flowers, also called aconite
Usage: botanical
Examples
- The gardener warned visitors not to touch the monkshood growing near the fence.
- Monkshood blooms in late summer with distinctive hooded flowers.
- All parts of the monkshood plant are extremely toxic if ingested.
- The deep blue monkshood added dramatic color to the cottage garden.
- Medieval herbalists knew monkshood as a dangerous but sometimes useful plant.
- She planted monkshood in the back border where children couldn’t reach it.