bear's-foot

English
A bear's-foot

Wikispecies

Noun

bear's-foot

  1. A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves and an offensive smell. It is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic.

Synonyms
  • dungwort, stinking hellebore

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bear's-foot in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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