Crossword clues for hellebore
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hellebore \Hel"le*bore\, n. [L. helleborus, elleborus, Gr. ?, ?; cf. F. hell['e]bore, ell['e]bore.]
(Bot.) A genus of perennial herbs ( Helleborus) of the Crowfoot family, mostly having powerfully cathartic and even poisonous qualities. Helleborus niger is the European black hellebore, or Christmas rose, blossoming in winter or earliest spring. Helleborus officinalis was the officinal hellebore of the ancients.
(Bot.) Any plant of several species of the poisonous liliaceous genus Veratrum, especially Veratrum album and Veratrum viride, both called white hellebore.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French ellebore, from Latin elleborus, from Greek helleboros, perhaps meaning "plant eaten by fawns," from Greek ellos/hellos "fawn" + bora "food of beasts," from bibroskein "to eat," from PIE root *gwere- (4) "to swallow" (see voracity). Among the ancients, the name given to various plants of both poisonous and medicinal qualities, reputed to cure madness.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of the common garden flowering plants of the genus ''Helleborus'', in family Ranunculaceae, having supposed medicinal properties. 2 A toxic extract of certain (vern: false hellebore)s ((taxlink Veratrum album species noshow=1) or (taxlink Veratrum viride species noshow=1)), formerly used as a pesticide.
WordNet
n. perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes [syn: false hellebore]
any plant of the Eurasian genus Helleborus
Wikipedia
Commonly known as hellebores , the Eurasian genus Helleborus comprises approximately 20 species of herbaceous or evergreen perennial flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae, within which it gave its name to the tribe of Helleboreae. The scientific name Helleborus derives from the Greek name for H. orientalis, ἑλλέβορος helléboros, from elein "to injure" and βορά borá "food". Many species are poisonous. Despite names such as "winter rose", "Christmas rose" and "Lenten rose", hellebores are not closely related to the rose family ( Rosaceae).
Usage examples of "hellebore".
Subsequently, Lord Tregonning will ensure that during his lifetime and that of his immediate heirs, no other artist will be allowed access to the gardens of Hellebore Hall.
All at once I remembered the famous hellebore, which had served me so well with Madame and, taking the little box, I held it to her nostrils.
When I was telling him about the hellebore he was lavish in his compliments on my presence of mind, for, as he said, such an unusual colour would have made people think there had been some kind of a combat--a supposition which would not have tended towards my success.
But I felt sleep stealing upon me, and I should have infallibly dropped off if it had not been for my hellebore, which kept me awake by making me sneeze.
John's wort and Clown's All-heal, with Spurge and Fennel, Saffron and Parsley, Elder and Snake-root, with opium in some form, and roasted rhubarb and the Four Great Cold Seeds, and the two Resins, of which it used to be said that whatever the Tacamahaca has not cured, the Caranna will, with the more familiar Scammony and Jalap and Black Hellebore, made up a good part of his probable list of remedies.
Nobody can guess that your hellebore was used to conceal the blush that your caresses occasioned, since it does not often happen that an amorous combat leaves such traces.
Yet she did not doubt that she would hear of him, as he scattered the bits and pieces he had carried from the church—the blains and poisons that caused suffering, even death, and those, like hellebore and nightshade, that could kill or cure.
A day or two you shall have digestives Of worms before you take your laxatives Of laurel, centuary, and fumitory, Or else of hellebore purificatory, Or caper spurge, or else of dogwood berry, Or herb ivy, all in our yard so merry.
Bring me ten cc's of bat's blood, some demonswart, and a half gill of black hellebore.
The mice hadn't been at it, or if they had, the chunks of black hellebore root scattered along the shelves had poisoned them.
Gerard writes: 'The roots of the Male Fern, being taken in the weight of half an ounce, driveth forth long flat worms, as Dioscorides writeth, being drunke in mede or honied water, and more effectually if it be given with two scruples, or two third parts of a dram of scammonie, or of black hellebore: they that will use it, must first eat garlicke.
The Black Hellebore - once known as Melampode - is a perennial, low-growing plant, with dark, shining, smooth leaves and flower-stalks rising directly from the root, its pure white blossoms appearing in the depth of winter and thereby earning for it the favourite name of Christmas Rose.
I still remember the pride I felt when he strapped the black japanned tin lined with green to my tiny back, and though at the time I was only four and much too young to enjoy searching in the heat for rare plants like Ladies' Tresses and Green Hellebore, the names of the plants, like the dates of the English kings, were impressed upon my mind so vividly that it has been impossible for me ever to forget them.
There are white and green hellebore, Veratrum alba and Veratrum viride.
Every couple of hours the shaman would prepare various infusions of herbs to speed the boy's healingred alder and green hellebore with a sliced corm of a jack-in-the-pulpit.