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Hellebore

noun

Perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes. Synonym: false hellebore.

Any plant of the Eurasian genus Helleborus.

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... "Merton, mamma wishes to go to the village. You drive her and Mousie down, and at the drug-store get two pounds of white hellebore, also a pound of Paris green, for I find that the potato bugs are getting too thick to be managed by hand. Remember that these are poisons, the Paris green a deadly one. Have them carefully wrapped up, and keep them from everything else. When ...

— Driven Back to Eden • E. P. Roe

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