HELLEBORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hellebore mean? 

• HELLEBORE (noun)
  The noun HELLEBORE has 2 senses:

1. perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes

2. any plant of the Eurasian genus Helleborus

  Familiarity information: HELLEBORE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HELLEBORE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

false hellebore; hellebore

Hypernyms ("hellebore" is a kind of...):

liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hellebore"):

American hellebore; bugbane; Indian poke; Veratrum viride; white hellebore (North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally)

Holonyms ("hellebore" is a member of...):

genus Veratrum; Veratrum (a genus of coarse poisonous perennial herbs; sometimes placed in subfamily Melanthiaceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any plant of the Eurasian genus Helleborus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("hellebore" is a kind of...):

poisonous plant (a plant that when touched or ingested in sufficient quantity can be harmful or fatal to an organism)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hellebore"):

bear's foot; Helleborus foetidus; setterwort; stinking hellebore (digitate-leaved hellebore with an offensive odor and irritant qualities when taken internally)

black hellebore; Christmas rose; Helleborus niger; winter rose (European evergreen plant with white or purplish rose-like winter-blooming flowers)

black hellebore; Helleborus orientalis; lenten rose (slightly hairy perennial having deep green leathery leaves and flowers that are ultimately purplish-green)

green hellebore; Helleborus viridis (deciduous plant with large deep green pedate leaves and nodding saucer-shaped green flowers)

Holonyms ("hellebore" is a member of...):

genus Helleborus; Helleborus (a genus of Helleborus)