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Definition of Helleborus
1. Noun. A genus of Helleborus.
Generic synonyms: Magnoliid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Buttercup Family, Crowfoot Family, Family Ranunculaceae, Ranunculaceae
Member holonyms: Hellebore
Medical Definition of Helleborus
1. Black hellebore, the dried rhizome and roots of Helleborus niger (family Ranunculaceae); used as a cardiac and arterial tonic, diuretic, and cathartic. Origin: G. Helleboros (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Helleborus
Literary usage of Helleborus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Clinical Materia Medica: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at the by Ernest Albert Farrington (1887)
"I PROPOSE considering first, to-day, helleborus niger. ... The action of helleborus
has been marked out for you on the board. ..."
2. A Manual of organic materia medica: Being a Guide to Materia Medica of the by John Michael Maisch (1892)
"helleborus niger.—Transverse section of rhizome and root, magnified 3 diam. FIG.
94. helleborus virdis.—Transverse section of rhizome and root, ..."
3. A Clinical Materia Medica: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at the by Ernest Albert Farrington (1887)
"I PROPOSE considering first, to-day, helleborus niger. ... The action of helleborus
has been marked out for you on the board. ..."
4. The Microanalysis of Powdered Vegetable Drugs by Albert Schneider (1921)
"helleborus. Hellebore. Fl. ex. 60. Black hellebore, Christmas rose, ...
helleborus viridis is histologically similar to the above. 110. (Fig. 111.) HUMULUS. ..."
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