Ae'o-nite, n.

n. [Lat. aconitum, Gr. ἀκόνιτον, because it grows on steep rocks, ἐν ἀκόναις; Fr. aconit. Cf. Ov. Metam. 7, 418.] (Bot.) The herb wolf’s-bane, or monk’s-hood, a plant of the genus Aconitum, all the species of which are poisonous. It belongs to the Hellebore tribe. Shak.