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Definition of Green hellebore
1. Noun. Deciduous plant with large deep green pedate leaves and nodding saucer-shaped green flowers.
Definition of Green hellebore
1. Noun. (plants) An extremely toxic herbaceous perennial plant of the genus ''Veratrum viride'' that is native to the western and eastern parts of the United States, but not the central part. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Green Hellebore
Literary usage of Green hellebore
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1896)
"In 1864, SR Percy extracted from green hellebore an alkaloid which he concluded
had all the properties of veratrine from saba- dilla seeds. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"Alkaloids of green hellebore Rhizome. The chief alkaloids occurring in this drug (
Veratrum ... Bobbins isolated from green hellebore rhizomes (Pharm. ..."
3. Practical therapeutics by Edward John Waring (1874)
"The best form is the officinal Tincture (B. Ph.) (green hellebore Hoot in course
powder oz. iv, Reel. Spirit Uj), of which the dose is placed at "Jv-xx. ..."
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