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FALSE HELLEBORE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes

Synonyms:

false hellebore; hellebore

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("false hellebore" is a kind of...):

liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "false hellebore"):

American hellebore; bugbane; Indian poke; Veratrum viride; white hellebore (North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally)

Holonyms ("false hellebore" is a member of...):

genus Veratrum; Veratrum (a genus of coarse poisonous perennial herbs; sometimes placed in subfamily Melanthiaceae)

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