monkshood

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite

From monk + -s- + hood.

"Oh, Mother Carey, the pansy cures heartache, the monkshood cures canker-lip, the tansy cures colds, and all the others have some joy and honour of service, but I am good for nothing, Mother Carey so the wise men despise me. — Woodland Tales, Ernest Thompson Seton
A little spruce elf then (just of the set Of the French dancer or such marionette), Clad in a suit of rush, woven like a mat, A monkshood flow'r then serving for a hat; Under a cloak made of the Spider's loom: This fairy (with them, held a lusty groom) Brought in his bottles; neater were there none; And every bottle was a cherry-stone, To each a seed pearl served for a screw, And most of them were fill'd with early dew.' — Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts, Rosalind Northcote

helmetflower, helmet flower, Aconitum napellus

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