| 单词 | white hellebore |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite hellebore white hellebore n. [after classical Latin elleborus albus (Pliny)] the white-flowered Eurasian herbaceous plant Veratrum album (family Melanthiaceae) (cf. hellebore n. 1a), the toxic root of which has been used medicinally (esp. as a purgative) and as a pesticide; (in later use also) any of various other plants of the genus Veratrum, esp. (more fully American white hellebore) V. viride of North America; frequently attributive. ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. lv. 947 Of þe tweye maner kynde of þis herbe þe white eleborus [L. elleborus albus] is þe bettre.] ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 632 Of þe white elebre and of þe blacke. ?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe sig. C.vi Take..of blacke and whyte, hellebore..and put in a bagge of lynen clothe. 1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden cx. 156 The root (of White Hellebore) worketh very strongly and churlishly. 1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum at Ague Mix the powder of white Hellebore roots with right Venice Turpentine. 1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom 737 White Hellebore (Veratrum album), a native of the Alps and Pyrenees, is a violent emetic and cathartic. 1912 W. C. O'Kane Injurious Insects xv. 68 Hellebore is a white powder, consisting of the finely ground roots of the plant known as white hellebore. 2002 J. Cunliffe Encycl. Dog Breeds (new ed.) 95/2 Sore patches could be rubbed with powdered root of white hellebore and hogslard. < as lemmas |
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