Definition of Black hellebore

1. Noun. Slightly hairy perennial having deep green leathery leaves and flowers that are ultimately purplish-green.

Exact synonyms: Helleborus Orientalis, Lenten Rose
Generic synonyms: Hellebore

2. Noun. European evergreen plant with white or purplish rose-like winter-blooming flowers.
Exact synonyms: Christmas Rose, Helleborus Niger, Winter Rose
Generic synonyms: Hellebore

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

black gold
black grama
black greasewood
black grouse
black grouses
black guillemot
black guillemots
black gum
black gums
black hairstreak
black hairstreaks
black hat
black hats
black haw
black heel
black hellebore (current term)
black hellebores
black hemlock
black henbane
black hickory
black hole
black holes
black horehound
black huckleberry
black humor
black humour
black ice
black information
black jack
black kite

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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