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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of liliaceous plants, type of the tribe Veratreæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun (Bot.) A genus of coarse liliaceous herbs having very poisonous qualities.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of various poisonous herbs of the genus Veratrum

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a genus of coarse poisonous perennial herbs; sometimes placed in subfamily Melanthiaceae

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin Vērātrum, genus name, from Latin vērātrum, any of various medicinal or toxic plants of the genera Helleborus and Veratrum, probably from a pre-Indo-European language of Europe ; akin to Italian dialectal (Piedmont) varasco, a species of hellebore (V. album).]

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