FALSE HELLEBORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does false hellebore mean? 

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

1. perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FALSE HELLEBORE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

false hellebore; hellebore

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)