Crossword-Solution: ACONITE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Aconite | n. | The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; -- applied to any plant of the genus Aconitum (tribe Hellebore), all the species of which are poisonous. |
| Aconite | n. | An extract or tincture obtained from Aconitum napellus, used as a poison and medicinally. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ACONITE | anagram | ANTOECI, CETONIA |
We have 14 clues for the answer “ACONITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A poisonous plant, monkshood. | 1 answer |
| A.k.a. monkshood | 1 answer |
| Drug from a poisonous plant. | 1 answer |
| Monkshood or wolfsbane | 1 answer |
| Poison from monkshood. | 1 answer |
| Sedative derived from monkshood. | 1 answer |
| foxbane | 1 answer |
| poisonous plant with hoodlike flowers | 1 answer |
| At once I (anag) – wolf’s-bane or monk’s-hood | 1 answer |
| atis | 2 answers |
| wolf'sbane | 2 answers |
| Plant of the buttercup family | 3 answers |
| Monkshood | 6 answers |
| poisonous plant | 52 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ACONITE (5)
But ravening tigers come not nigh, nor breed Of savage lion, nor aconite betrays Its hapless gatherers, nor with sweep so vast Doth the scaled serpent trail his endless coils Along the ground, or wreathe him into spires.
One of them had said: "If the child is strangling when it inhales, as if it were breathing through a sponge, then give it spongia; but if it is strangling when it breathes out, give it aconite." When I reached the baby I listened, but could not tell which way it was strangling.
The countryman of Livingstone, Burton, Speke, Drake, Cook, etc.! I have been sweated not only out of my pleuritic fever, but out of all my eating cares, and the better part of my brains (strange coincidence!), by aconite.
The night Was white and still with moonlight, and a sigh Of blowing leaves was there, and the dim flight Of insects, and the smell of aconite, And stocks, and Marvel of Peru.
Panic seized him: fled his vision of inviolability; Fled the dream that he of mortals rode mischances predominant; And he cried, ‘Had I petitioned for a cup of chill aconite, My descent to awful Hades had been soft, for now must I go With the curse by father Zeus cast on ambition immoderate.
Quotes with ACONITE (1)
There is a bench in the back of my garden shaded by Virginia creeper, climbing roses, and a white pine where I sit early in the morning and watch the action. Light blue bells of a dwarf campanula drift over the rock garden just before my eyes. Behind it, a three-foot stand of aconite is flowering now, each dark blue cowl-like corolla bowed for worship or intrigue: thus its common name, monkshood. Next to the aconite, black madonna lilies with their seductive Easter scent are …
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1951–2014).