Usually means: Poisonous substance used in Hamlet.
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  1. hebenon: Collins English Dictionary
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  3. hebenon: Wiktionary
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  5. Hebenon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Hebenon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. hebenon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Hebenon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. hebenon: FreeDictionary.org
  10. hebenon: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  11. Hebenon: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hebenon)

▸ noun:  (now rare) A plant or flower used in Elizabethan times to make a poison (compare with John Gower's hebenus).

Similar:
behen, poisonpie, henbane, bane, helleborine, hellebore, Bennet, white henbane, melampode, albaspine, more...

Opposite:
antidote, healing agent, remedy, counterpoison

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Similar:
behen, poisonpie, henbane, bane, helleborine, hellebore, Bennet, white henbane, melampode, albaspine, more...

Opposite:
antidote, healing agent, remedy, counterpoison



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