Webster's 1913 Dictionary
VERATRUM
Ve *ra "trum, n. Etym: [L. veratrum hellebore. ] (Bot. )
Defn: A genus of coarse liliaceous herbs having very poisonous qualities.
Note: Veratrum album of Europe, and Veratrum viride of America, are both called hellebore. They grow in wet land, have large, elliptical, plicate leaves in three vertical ranks, and bear panicles of greenish flowers.
New American Oxford Dictionary
veratrum
ve ra trum |vəˈrātrəm vəˈreɪtrəm | ▶noun ( pl. veratrums ) a plant of a genus that includes the false hellebores. [Genus Veratrum, family Liliaceae. ] ORIGIN modern Latin, from Latin, literally ‘hellebore. ’
Oxford Dictionary
veratrum
veratrum |vəˈreɪtrəm | ▶noun ( pl. veratrums ) a plant of a genus that includes the false helleborines. ●Genus Veratrum, family Liliaceae. ORIGIN modern Latin, from Latin, literally ‘hellebore ’.
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