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Definition of Black hellebore
1. Noun. Slightly hairy perennial having deep green leathery leaves and flowers that are ultimately purplish-green.
2. Noun. European evergreen plant with white or purplish rose-like winter-blooming flowers.
Definition of Black hellebore
1. Noun. (plants) A particular kind of poisonous and medicinal plant of the species, ''Veratrum nigrum''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Black Hellebore
Literary usage of Black hellebore
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1875)
"According to Wibmer, the roots of the black hellebore po-r-cs- great activity
... About one ounce and a half of the root of the black hellebore was put in a ..."
2. The Chemical Works of Caspar Neumann ...: Abridged and Methodized : with by Caspar Neumann, William Lewis (1773)
"THE roots of black hellebore ... of the garden green-flowered black hellebore
are inferior in quality to both the ..."
3. A Treatise on Poisons: In Relation to Medical Jurisprudence, Physiology, and by Robert Christison (1836)
"... and black hellebore. With these may also be arranged Ipeca- cuan, or more
properly speaking its principle Emeta. ..."
4. A Universal formulary: Containing the Methods of Preparing and Administering by Robert Eglesfeld Griffith (1866)
"Powdered black hellebore, fifteen grains. Calomel, five grains. ... R. Powdered black
hellebore, two pounds. Carbonate of potassa, half a pound. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"189, 1718), must be a remedy of no small toxic properties. According to an early
tradition, black hellebore administered by the soothsayer and physician ..."
6. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"HI black hellebore ROOT. Radix Hellt- bori nigri. ... black hellebore and the
nearly related green hellebore, ..."
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