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false hellebore
[ fawls hel-uh-bawr ]
noun
- any of various plants of the genus Veratrum, family Melanthiaceae, with highly poisonous black rhizomes, including V. viride, with clusters of yellowish-green flowers, native to eastern and western North America: now rarely used in medicine, the alkaloids from false hellebores were once used in a number of treatments, as for high blood pressure.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of false hellebore1
First recorded in 1855–60
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