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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:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

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