Noun: henbane
| Singular | henbane |
| Plural | henbanes |
Sample Sentences
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Deadly nightshade, henbane, hellebore and mandrakes were of evil reputation[.] [1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 157:]
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Henbane acts as an anaphrodisiac. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 114:]
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After studying the book for several minutes, he began to assemble a weird collection of plants and herbs on the floor in front of him. Hemlock and foxglove, ivy and deadnettle, henbane and marigold[.] [1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 12:]
Nouns inflected like henbane
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English henbane, hennebane ( > French hanebane), equivalent to hen + bane. Cognate with Danish hønsebane, Swedish hönsbane. Compare also Old English hennebelle (“henbane”, literally “hen-bell”). See: Middle English Nouns '
henbane', Old English Nouns '
hennebelle'.