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helenium
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Word definitions for helenium in dictionaries
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Helenium is a genus of annuals and deciduous herbaceous perennials in the sunflower family native to the Americas . They bear yellow or orange daisy-like composite flowers . A number of these species (particularly Helenium autumnale ) have the common name ...
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n. Any of various flowering plants, of the genus (taxlink Helenium genus noshow=1), the dried leaves of which were once used to make a form of snuff
Usage examples of helenium.
She had striven to ward off evil from her charge by sticking a knife into a plant of helenium at sunrise on Michaelmas Day, in the hope that the proper demon would appear, whom at that hour and with such preparation she would have power to command.
They-after their demolishment of the fence, they don't seem to have done much more damage in their s-sudden invasion of Port Helenia.
They—after their demolishment of the fence, they don’t seem to have done much more damage in their s-sudden invasion of Port Helenia.
Helenium (Elecampane), the leaves of which resemble Foxglove leaves, though they are less pointed, and the lower lateral veins do not form a 'wing' as in the Foxglove, the leaves of Symphytum officinale (Comfrey), which, however, may be recognized by the isolated stiff hairs they bear, and Verbascum Thapsus (Great Mullein), the leaves of which, unlike those of the Foxglove, have woolly upper and under surfaces, and the hairs of which, examined under a lens, are seen to be branched.