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BUGBANE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bugbane" is a kind of...):
ligneous plant; woody plant (a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bugbane"):
American bugbane; Cimicifuga americana; summer cohosh (bugbane of the eastern United States having erect racemes of white flowers)
black cohosh; black snakeroot; Cimicifuga racemosa; rattle-top (North American bugbane found from Maine and Ontario to Wisconsin and south to Georgia)
Cimicifuga foetida; fetid bugbane; foetid bugbane (bugbane of Siberia and eastern Asia having ill-smelling green-white flowers)
Holonyms ("bugbane" is a member of...):
Cimicifuga; genus Cimicifuga (small genus of perennial herbs of north temperate regions: bugbane)
Sense 2
Meaning:
North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally
Synonyms:
American hellebore; bugbane; Indian poke; Veratrum viride; white hellebore
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("bugbane" is a kind of...):
false hellebore; hellebore (perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes)