Defenition of the word bugbane

• Defenition of the word bugbane

  • a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects
  • North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally

Synonyms for the word bugbane

• • American hellebore
  • Indian poke
  • Veratrum viride
  • white hellebore

Meronymys for the word bugbane

• • Cimicifuga
  • genus Cimicifuga

Hyponyms for the word bugbane

• • American bugbane
  • black cohosh
  • black snakeroot
  • Cimicifuga americana
  • Cimicifuga foetida
  • Cimicifuga racemosa
  • fetid bugbane
  • foetid bugbane
  • rattle-top
  • summer cohosh

Hypernyms for the word bugbane

• • false hellebore
  • hellebore
  • ligneous plant
  • woody plant

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