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Definition of Helleborine
1. Noun. Any of several small temperate and tropical orchids having mottled or striped leaves and spikes of small yellowish-white flowers in a twisted raceme.
Generic synonyms: Orchid, Orchidaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Goodyera, Goodyera
2. Noun. Any of various orchids of the genus Epipactis.
Group relationships: Epipactis, Genus Epipactis
Specialized synonyms: Epipactis Helleborine, Chatterbox, Epipactis Gigantea, Giant Helleborine, Stream Orchid
3. Noun. Any of several orchids of the genus Cephalanthera.
Group relationships: Cephalanthera, Genus Cephalanthera
Specialized synonyms: Cephalanthera Rubra, Red Helleborine
Definition of Helleborine
1. Noun. Any of a number of species of orchid of the genera (spelink Epipactis) and (spelink Cephalanthera). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Helleborine
Literary usage of Helleborine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and ...by Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1754)
"helleborine fore rotunda, five ... Virginian Lady's-flipper, with a yellow Flower.
7. helleborine latifolia, flore albo ... helleborine Mariana, fore ..."
2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1902)
"The first name of the lady's slippers appears thus to have been helleborine,
signifying false hellebore. Caspar Bauhin in his Pinax, 187, designates a ..."
3. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1853)
"It therefore closely resembles piperine in many of its properties, which is
classed amongst the alkaloids, although like helleborine it is devoid of ..."
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