Definition of Helmet flower

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

Exact synonyms: Aconitum Napellus, Helmetflower, Monkshood
Generic synonyms: Aconite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Helmet Flower

helluones librorum
helluv
helluva
hellward
helly
hellyerite
hellzapoppin
helm
helmage
helmed
helmen
helmer
helmers
helmet
helmet cell
helmet flower (current term)
helmet orchid
helmeted
helmetflower
helmeting
helmetless
helmetlike
helmets
helmette
helmettes
helming
helminth
helminth proteins
helminthagogue
helminthagogues

Literary usage of Helmet flower

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Flora Domestica, Or, The Portable Flower-garden: With Directions for the by Elizabeth Kent, Leigh Hunt (1831)
"THE kinds of Helmet-flower most generally cultivated in our gardens, are the Oriental, with yellow flowers, blowing in May, June, and July ; the Alpine, ..."

2. The Shakespeare Garden by Esther Singleton (1922)
""The helmet flower," he writes, "hath divers leaves of a fresh green color on the upper side and grayish underneath, much spread abroad and cut into many ..."

3. The American Homœopathic Dispensatory by Theodore D. Williams (1884)
"... Wholesome wolfs bane, Yellow helmet flower. ... VULG., Aconite, Friar's cap, helmet flower, Monk's hood, ..."

4. List of Medicines Mentioned in Homœopathic Literature by Henry M. Smith (1879)
"I Tul<j., Wholesome wolf's bane, Yellow helmet flower. Tinct. of extract. ... Vu/g., Friar's cap, helmet flower, Monk's hood, Wolf's bane. ..."

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