AMERICAN HELLEBORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American hellebore mean? 

• AMERICAN HELLEBORE (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN HELLEBORE has 1 sense:

1. North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally

  Familiarity information: AMERICAN HELLEBORE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMERICAN HELLEBORE (noun)

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Meaning:

North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American hellebore; bugbane; Indian poke; Veratrum viride; white hellebore

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

false hellebore; hellebore (perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes)