bikh

English

Aconitum ferox

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Hindi बिख (bikh, “poison”), from Sanskrit विष (viṣa, “poison”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɪk/

Noun

bikh (uncountable)

1. A virulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite.
2. The plant itself.

Synonyms

• bish, nabee

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bikh”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)