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Webster 1913 Edition
Veratrum
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Ve-ra′trum
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Noun.
[L.
veratrum
hellebore.] (Bot.)
A genus of coarse liliaceous herbs having very poisonous qualities.
☞ Veratrum album of Europe, and Veratrum viride of America, are both called hellebore. They grow in wet land, have large, elliptical, plicate leaves in three vertical ranks, and bear panicles of greenish flowers.
Definition 2025
Veratrum
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Translingual
Proper noun
Veratrum n
- A taxonomic genus within the family Melanthiaceae – the false hellebores.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, monocots - clades; Liliales - order; Melanthiaceae - family; Melanthieae - tribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Veratrum album - type species
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