The Collaborative International Dictionary
Melampode
Melampode \Mel"am*pode\, n. [Gr. melampo`dion; of uncertain
origin.]
The black hellebore. [Obs.]
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
melampode
n. (context obsolete English) The black hellebore.
Usage examples of "melampode".
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.