Definition of Genus Helleborus

1. Noun. A genus of Helleborus.

Exact synonyms: Helleborus
Generic synonyms: Magnoliid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Buttercup Family, Crowfoot Family, Family Ranunculaceae, Ranunculaceae
Member holonyms: Hellebore

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Helleborus

genus Hedera
genus Hedysarum
genus Helenium
genus Heleodytes
genus Heliamphora
genus Helianthemum
genus Helianthus
genus Helichrysum
genus Helicteres
genus Heliobacter
genus Heliophila
genus Heliopsis
genus Heliothis
genus Helipterum
genus Helix
genus Helleborus (current term)
genus Helminthostachys
genus Heloderma
genus Helotium
genus Helvella
genus Helwingia
genus Helxine
genus Hemachatus
genus Hemerocallis
genus Hemigalus
genus Hemigrammus
genus Hemipteronatus
genus Hemitripterus
genus Hepatica
genus Heracleum

Literary usage of Genus Helleborus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Drugs and medicines of North America: A Publication Devoted to the by John Uri Lloyd, Curtis Gates Lloyd (1885)
"The plant is closely allied to the genus Helleborus, and the only characters of distinction afforded by the flowers are the deciduous sepals and the ..."

2. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1888)
"Belonging to, or having an arrangement of parts as in, the genus Helleborus. ... The plants of the genus Helleborus. ..."

3. New Remedies edited by Horatio Charles Wood, Frederick Albert Castle, Charles Rice (1877)
"... sole representative of which, Eran- this hiemalis Sal., was included in the genus Helleborus by ..."

4. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"... Of the genus Helleborus eight species are known and most of them have been cultivated. Beside Helleborus niger, Helleborus I'iridis is common. ..."

5. A Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Collateral Sciences by Richard Dennis Hoblyn (1865)
"... is the Great or Vineyard Snail; a popular remedy for emaciation, with hectic fever and phthisis. [HELLEBORE. Common name for the genus Helleborus, ..."

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