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Definition of Monkshoods
1. monkshood [n] - See also: monkshood
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monkshoods
Literary usage of Monkshoods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1896)
"monkshoods follicles are frequently solitary. Fig. 1 is a section through flower ;
Fig. 2 shows the curiously ribbed seed, natural size and enlarged ..."
2. An Introduction to Logic by Horace William Brindley Joseph (1906)
"Beans (or monkshoods) are not edible 3. Both premisses particular. a. both affirmative;
no conclusion follows : Some Germans are Protestants Some Calvinists ..."
3. An Elementary Course of Botany: Structural, Physiological and Systematic by Arthur Henfrey (1870)
"... are well-known poisonous European monkshoods ; and, according to Dr. Hooker,
the celebrated " Bikh " poison of India is obtained indiscriminately from ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1892)
"... potentilla and geum filled up the intervals : when the pansies, all down to
line, made a riband of gorgeous hues, and behind, the monkshoods in wondrous ..."
5. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"... muskmelons, monkshoods of all colours. Bacon s Essays. Thou hast a brain, such
as it is indeed ! On what else should thy worm of fancy feed ? ..."
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