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Definition of Hellebores
1. hellebore [n] - See also: hellebore
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hellebores
Literary usage of Hellebores
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Enquiry Into Plants and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs by Theophrastus (1916)
"Now this account applies only to the above-mentioned plants. Of hellebores, the
white_ and the black: their lises and distribution. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"When in a radiating leaf there are three primary partitions, and the two lateral
lobe* are again cleft, as in hellebores Fig. 107. Fig. 103. fin. 107. ..."
3. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1886)
"... Alkaloids of the hellebores.1 The rhizome of white hellebore, Veratrum album,
was found by Pelletier and Caventou, in 1820, to contain an alkaloid which ..."
4. Text-book of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology by John James Reese (1889)
"POISONING BY THE hellebores, ETC VERATRINE — YELLOW JESSAMINE ... This is the
most poisonous of all the hellebores. The powder produces violent sneezing. ..."
5. Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working by Gertrude Jekyll (1904)
"... seed-pods of Fir and Gorse— Auriculas—Tulips—Small shrubs for rock-garden—Daffodils
as cut flowers—Lent hellebores—Primroses—Leaves of wild Arum. ..."
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