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noun poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock
originFrom wolf + -s- + bane, a calque of Ancient Greek λυκοκτόνον (lukoktónon), from λύκος (lúkos, “wolf”) + κτείνω (kteínō, “to kill”). Influenced by Latin lycoctonum.
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