Crossword-Solution: HELLEBORE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hellebore | n. | A genus of perennial herbs (Helleborus) of the Crowfoot family, mostly having powerfully cathartic and even poisonous qualities. H. niger is the European black hellebore, or Christmas rose, blossoming in winter or earliest spring. H. officinalis was the officinal hellebore of the ancients. |
| Hellebore | n. | Any plant of several species of the poisonous liliaceous genus Veratrum, especially V. album and V. viride, both called white hellebore. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “HELLEBORE”
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| "Heaven's exciting, but I find __" | 1 answer |
| Christmas rose | 1 answer |
| any plant of the Eurasian genus Helleborus | 1 answer |
| plant with white flowers that bloom in winter | 1 answer |
| ranunculaceous plant | 1 answer |
| veratrum | 1 answer |
| Medicinal herb | 17 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZACEME
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eruption
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Sentences with HELLEBORE (5)
Orion: There is nothing but what will do you good; And the drugs are simples; 'tis hellebore, Nepenthe, upas, and dragon's blood, Absinthe, and mandrake, and mandragore.
Open swales, where in wet years may be running water, are plantations of false hellebore (Veratrum californicum), tall, branched candelabra of greenish bloom above the sessile, sheathing, boat-shaped leaves, semi-translucent in the sun.
Next you hear the rain drum on the broad-leaved hellebore, and beat down the mimulus beside the brook.
Dan had hung his lamp on the apple tree at the end of the hellebore bed in the walled garden, and was crouched by the gooseberry bushes ready to dash off when Una should spy him.
Whilst the gay girl, as was her fate, Doth wanton and luxuriate, And crowns her conqu'ring head all or With fatal leaves of hellebore.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1970–1986).