Veratrum

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Veratrum \Ve*ra"trum\, prop. n. [L. veratrum hellebore.] (Bot.)
     A genus of coarse liliaceous herbs having very poisonous
     qualities.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: Veratrum album of Europe, and Veratrum viride of


           America, are both called hellebore. They grow in wet
           land, have large, elliptical, plicate leaves in three
           vertical ranks, and bear panicles of greenish flowers.
           [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Veratrum
       n : a genus of coarse poisonous perennial herbs; sometimes
           placed in subfamily Melanthiaceae [syn: {genus Veratrum}]