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What does hellebore mean?

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  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 false hellebores (Veratrum album or Veratrum viride), formerly used as a pesticide.
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Nonephemerals that bloom during the summer or fall are Canada lily, false hellebore, and species of aster, goldenrod, and sunflower.
I know also an effective remedy made with a root of an hellebore, that the shepherds call consiligo.
So she also planted hundreds of allium, nepeta, Solomon's seal, jack-in-the-pulpit and hellebore.
Be very cautious about growing poisonous plants, like castor bean or hellebore, in readily accessible areas.
In the Book of Venoms, he listed arsenic, aconite, hellebore, laurel, opium, bryony, mandrake, leopard's gall, and menstrual blood.
De Abano in the fourteenth century included mercury, copper, lapis lazuli, arsenic sublimate, litharge, nux vomica, laurel berries, and hellebore in his De Remedis Venenorum.

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