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aconite

(n): any of various usually poisonous plants of the genus Aconitum having tuberous roots and palmately lobed leaves and blue or white flowers
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7 months ago sionnach said:

Tee-hee!

7 months ago mollusque said:

You need a sneakoscope, c_b!

7 months ago chained_bear said:

Damn! You actually made me go and look at the copyright date, you sneak! You... you inspissated sneak!

7 months ago sionnach said:

This is *so* plagiarized from J.K. Rowlings' description of potions class at Hogwarts.

7 months ago chained_bear said:

"In his youth he had turned to a number of allies against the intolerable boredom ... of insomnia: poppy and mandragora being the most obvious, seconded by the inspissated juice of aconite or of henbane, by datura stramonium, creeping skerit, leopard's bane."
--P. O'Brian, The Yellow Admiral, 24

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