bear's foot

1. 1.

   digitate-leaved hellebore with an offensive odor and irritant qualities when taken internally

   Synonymsstinking helleboresetterwortHelleborus foetidus

   Broaderhellebore

Questions about bear's foot

What does bear's foot mean?

bear's foot means "digitate-leaved hellebore with an offensive odor and irritant qualities when taken internally".

What is another word for bear's foot?

Close synonyms include stinking hellebore, setterwort, Helleborus foetidus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bear's foot a common word?

bear's foot is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.