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hebona

hebona 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 hebona

What is hebona the alternative form of?
Hebona is the alternative form of hebenon.

Words near hebona in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hebona (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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