noun
Meaning 1
Any plant in the genus Veratrum.
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Phrase guide
false hellebore
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noun
Meaning 2
A flowering plant, Adonis vernalis.
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noun
Meaning 3
perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: hellebore
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: liliaceous plant
Narrower terms: white hellebore, American hellebore, Indian poke, bugbane, Veratrum viride
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Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: чемерика (čemerika) — Veratrum
- Czech: kýchavice — Veratrum
- Finnish: pärskäjuuri — Veratrum
- Polish: ciemiężyca — Veratrum
- Swedish: nysrötter — Veratrum
- Turkish: akçöpleme — Veratrum
- Ottoman Turkish: قار چیچكی (kar çiçeği) — Veratrum
- Bulgarian: гороцве́т (gorocvét) — Adonis vernalis
- Bulgarian: горицве́т (goricvét) — Adonis vernalis
- Czech: hlaváček jarní — Adonis vernalis
- Finnish: kevätruusuleinikki — Adonis vernalis
- German: Frühlings-Adonis — Adonis vernalis
- German: Frühlings-Adonisröschen — Adonis vernalis
- Polish: miłek wiosenny — Adonis vernalis
- Polish: adonis — Adonis vernalis
- Russian: горицве́т (goricvét) — Adonis vernalis
- Serbo-Croatian: го̏роцвет — Adonis vernalis
- Serbo-Croatian: го̏роцвијет — Adonis vernalis
- Serbo-Croatian: gȍrocvet — Adonis vernalis
- Serbo-Croatian: gȍrocvijet — Adonis vernalis
- Slovak: hlaváčik jarný — Adonis vernalis
- Swedish: våradonis — Adonis vernalis
- Ukrainian: гори́цвіт (horýcvit) — Adonis vernalis