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HELLEBORUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Helleborus mean?
• HELLEBORUS (noun)
The noun HELLEBORUS has 1 sense:
1. a genus of Helleborus
Familiarity information: HELLEBORUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A genus of Helleborus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Helleborus; Helleborus
Hypernyms ("Helleborus" is a kind of...):
magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)
Meronyms (members of "Helleborus"):
hellebore (any plant of the Eurasian genus Helleborus)
Holonyms ("Helleborus" is a member of...):
buttercup family; crowfoot family; family Ranunculaceae; Ranunculaceae (a family of Ranunculaceae)
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