HyperDic: false_hellebore

English > 1 sense of the expression false hellebore:
NOUNplantfalse hellebore, helleboreperennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes
English > false hellebore: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningperennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes.
Synonymhellebore
Member ofVeratrum, genus VeratrumA genus of coarse poisonous perennial herbs
Narrowerwhite hellebore, American hellebore, Indian poke, bugbane, Veratrum virideNorth American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes
Broaderliliaceous plantplant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber

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