hellebore

Etymology
From, from , , from , via from , possibly from. The initial h was restored in English to reflect the Ancient Greek etymology.

Noun

 * 1) Any of the common garden flowering plants of the genus, in family , having supposed medicinal properties.
 * 2) * 1998, Plinio Prioreschi, A History of Medicine, Volume III: Roman Medicine, page 122,
 * Then the physician would use the king of remedies, the powerful one, hellebore:We suspect that after a sufficient number of administrations of hellebore the patient, if he had not done so before, would declare himself cured.
 * 1) A toxic extract of certain false hellebores ( or ), formerly used as a pesticide.
 * 2) * 1915 July 14, Leland Ossian Howard, Robert Harris Hutchison, House Flies, US Department of Agriculture, Farmers' Bulletin No. 679, page 15,
 * Of the numerous substances tried, the one which seems best to fulfill these conditions is powdered hellebore. Some of the powdered hellebore in use is prepared from the roots of a plant which botanists know as, and which is popularly known as Indian polk or itch weed.
 * 1) A toxic extract of certain false hellebores ( or ), formerly used as a pesticide.
 * 2) * 1915 July 14, Leland Ossian Howard, Robert Harris Hutchison, House Flies, US Department of Agriculture, Farmers' Bulletin No. 679, page 15,
 * Of the numerous substances tried, the one which seems best to fulfill these conditions is powdered hellebore. Some of the powdered hellebore in use is prepared from the roots of a plant which botanists know as, and which is popularly known as Indian polk or itch weed.

Derived terms

 * any plant of genus
 * helleborine
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 * any plant of genus
 * helleborine
 * (, syn. )
 * helleborine
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 * helleborine
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Translations

 * Arabic: خَرْبَق
 * Aramaic:
 * Classical Syriac: ܚܘܪܒܟܢܐ
 * Armenian: ,
 * Basque: otsababa
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: el·lèbor
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 鹿食草, 鐵筷子, 嚏根草
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: теште
 * Esperanto: heleboro
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: Nieswurz, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἑλλέβορος
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: eileabar
 * Italian:
 * Kazakh: аязшөп
 * Malayalam:
 * Ottoman Turkish: بوینوز اوتی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Romansch: starnidella
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Welsh: pelydr, crafanc-yr-arth
 * Wolof:
 * Yoruba: