Why this word is great
WOLFSBANE — [Noun] Any of several poisonous perennial herbs of the genus Aconitum, historically used to poison wolves. From wolf + -s- + bane, a calque of Ancient Greek λυκοκτόνον (lukoktónon), from λύκος (lúkos, "wolf") + κτείνω (kteínō, "to kill"), influenced by Latin lycoctonum. Unlike "monkshood" (which designates a single species, named for its hooded blooms) or "arnica" (a benign healer often mistaken for it), wolfsbane is a genus-wide executioner, its very name a contract signed in blood. It is the purple-dark petals glistening with dew like a blade fresh from the whetstone, the root dug by trembling hands into bait-meat, the quiet collapse of a predator into the underbrush—proof that even the wildest threats can be undone by something smaller, and quieter, and far more patient.