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aconite

Any member of two genera of perennial herbaceous plants of the buttercup family: (monkshood or wolfsbane), consisting of summer-flowering poisonous plants, and (winter aconite), consisting of spring-flowering ornamentals. The dried tuberous root of was formerly used as a sedative and a painkiller.

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