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GENUS CIMICIFUGA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Small genus of perennial herbs of north temperate regions: bugbane
Synonyms:
Cimicifuga; genus Cimicifuga
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Cimicifuga" is a kind of...):
magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)
Meronyms (members of "genus Cimicifuga"):
bugbane (a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects)
Holonyms ("genus Cimicifuga" is a member of...):
buttercup family; crowfoot family; family Ranunculaceae; Ranunculaceae (a family of Ranunculaceae)