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bugbane
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bugbane has 2 senses
- bugbane(n = noun.plant) american hellebore, indian poke, veratrum viride, white hellebore - North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally; Array is a kind of false hellebore, hellebore
- bugbane(n = noun.plant) Array - a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects; Array is a member of cimicifuga, genus cimicifuga
has particulars: american bugbane, cimicifuga americana, summer cohosh, black cohosh, black snakeroot, cimicifuga racemosa, rattle-top, cimicifuga foetida, fetid bugbane, foetid bugbane
is a kind of ligneous plant, woody plant
CIDE DICTIONARY
bugbane, n.
A perennial white-flowered herb of the order Ranunculaceæ and genus Cimiciguga ; bugwort. There are several species. [1913 Webster]
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