hellebore

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They bought five cents' worth of white hellebore, which is a powder, and sprinkled it on the ground in a circle about the stems of the young plants.

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  1. noun Any of various plants of the genus Helleborus, native to Eurasia, most species of which are poisonous.
  2. noun Any of various plants of the genus Veratrum, especially V. viride of North America, having large leaves and greenish flowers and yielding a toxic alkaloid used medicinally.

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  1. Middle English ellebre, from Old French, from Latin elleborus, from Greek helleboros : perhaps hellos, fawn + -boros, eaten (from bibrōskein, to eat).

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  1. Formerly also ellebore; from Middle English elebore, elebur, from Old French ellebore, French ellébore, hellébore = Spanish eléboro, elebor = Portuguese helleboro = Italian elleboro. from Latin helleborus, elleborus, also helleborum, elleborum, from Greek ἑλλέβορος, rarely ἐλλέβορος, hellebore (Latin veratrum); ulterior origin unknown.
 

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/ˈhɛlɛboʊr/
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