Aconitum, aconíti, pen. prod. nig. A venimous hearbe, whereof there be two kinds: oue hath leaues like a cucumber but lesse and rough, the stalke a handfull high, the roote like the taile of a Scorpion, and white like alabaster. The other kinde hath leaues like a plane tree, but the diuisions thicker, the leafe longer and blacker: a stalke like ferne, one cubite in height: the seedes in long cods, the rootes blacke and like the hornes of a shrsmpe. Turner sayth one kind may be called libardbaine, the other woolfbaine. In dutch it, is called woolfmort. Aconitum. Aconita dira. Ausonius. Pallida. Lucanus. Lurida.Ouid. Viuacia. Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ăcŏnītum, i, n., = a)ko/niton, a poisonous plant, wolf's-bane, monk's-hood, aconite, Plin. 27, 2, 2; 6, 1, 1fin.: aconiton, Ov. M. 7, 407.—In plur., Verg. G. 2, 152; Ov. M. 7, 419; Aus. Idyll. 12, 9, 11; Luc. 4, 322. —For a strong poison in gen., Ov. M. 1, 147; Juv. 10, 25.