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hebon

hebon is the alternative form of hebenon.

Meaning of hebenon

Noun

hebenon (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) A plant or flower used in Elizabethan times to make a poison (compare with John Gower's hebenus).
    • In few, the blood of Hydra, Lerna's bane,
      The juice of hebon, and Cocytus' breath.c. 1592, Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta

Questions about hebon

What is hebon the alternative form of?
Hebon is the alternative form of hebenon.

Words near hebon in the dictionary

  1. hebiatrics
  2. Hebner
  3. Hebners
  4. heboid
  5. heboidophrenia
  6. hebon
  7. hebona
  8. Hebonics
  9. hebophile
  10. hebophiles
  11. hebophilia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hebon (page history and authors); hebenon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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