noun
European evergreen plant with white or purplish rose-like winter-blooming flowers
• Syn: ↑winter rose, ↑black hellebore, ↑Helleborus niger
• Hypernyms: ↑hellebore
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nounUsage: usually capitalized C
: a European herb (Helleborus niger) having white or purplish roselike flowers produced in winter
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a European hellebore, Helleborus niger, having evergreen leaves and white-to-purplish flowers that bloom in the winter. Also called winter rose.
[1680-90]
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Christmas rose or Christmas flower noun
An evergreen plant (Helleborus niger) that bears cup-shaped white flowers in winter or early spring
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Main Entry: ↑Christmas
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Christmas rose,
a low-growing, European, evergreen plant of the crowfoot family, grown for its white flowers which bloom in winter or early spring; black hellebore.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.