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veratrum

noun

veratrum is a noun meaning “Any of various poisonous herbs of the genus Veratrum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-R-A-T-R-U-M, and it appears about once in every 43 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of veratrum is veratrums.

What does veratrum mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any of various poisonous herbs of the genus Veratrum

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of veratrum

  • veratrums plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is veratrum?

Veratrum appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does veratrum come from?

Borrowed from Latin vērātrum (“hellebore”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).