HELMETFLOWER

monkshood, helmetflower, helmet flower, Aconitum napellus

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

helmetflower, helmet orchid

(noun) any of several orchids of the genus Coryanthes having racemes of a few musky-scented waxy flowers with a helmet-shaped lip process

skullcap, helmetflower

(noun) a herbaceous plant of the genus Scutellaria which has a calyx that, when inverted, resembles a helmet with its visor raised

Source: WordNet® 3.1



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Word of the Day

13 February 2025

BREAK

(verb) cause the failure or ruin of; “His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage”; “This play will either make or break the playwright”


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According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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