hellebore
suomi-englanti sanakirjahellebore englannista suomeksi
pärskäjuuri
jouluruusu
Substantiivi
hellebore englanniksi
Any of the common garden flowering plants of the genus (taxfmt), in family (taxfmt), having supposed medicinal properties.
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1998, Plinio Prioreschi, ''A History of Medicine'', Volume III: Roman Medicine, page 122,
- Then the physician would use the king of remedies, the powerful one, hellebore:(..)We suspect that after a sufficient number of administrations of hellebore the patient, if he had not done so before, would declare himself cured.
A toxic extract of certain hellebores ((taxfmt) or (taxlink)), formerly used as a pesticide.
1915 July 14, Leland Ossian Howard, Robert Harris Hutchison, ''House Flies'', US Department of Agriculture, Farmers' Bulletin No. 679, page 15,
- Of the numerous substances tried, the one which seems best to fulfill these conditions is powdered hellebore. Some of the powdered hellebore in use is prepared from the roots of a plant which botanists know as (taxlink), and which is popularly known as Indian polk or itch weed.