n 1 a  cap  :  a genus of coarse herbs of the lily family (Liliaceae) having short poisonous rootstocks, large clasping leaves, and panicled flowers with the perianth segments adnate to the ovary  b  :  any hellebore of the genus Veratrum  2  :  HELLEBORE 2b .
 
 
 
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