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Definition of Genus helleborus
1. Noun. A genus of Helleborus.
Generic synonyms: Magnoliid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Buttercup Family, Crowfoot Family, Family Ranunculaceae, Ranunculaceae
Member holonyms: Hellebore
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Helleborus
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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