veratrum viride

1. 1.

   North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally

   Synonymswhite helleboreAmerican helleboreIndian pokebugbane

   Broaderhellebore

Questions about veratrum viride

What does veratrum viride mean?

veratrum viride means "North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally".

What is another word for veratrum viride?

Close synonyms include white hellebore, American hellebore, Indian poke, bugbane. 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 veratrum viride a common word?

veratrum viride 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.