bugbane

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noun

1. North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes;
yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally
• Syn:
white hellebore, American hellebore, Indian poke, Veratrum viride
• Hypernyms:
hellebore, false hellebore
2. a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects
• Hypernyms:
woody plant, ligneous plant
• Hyponyms:
American bugbane, summer cohosh, Cimicifuga americana, black cohosh, black snakeroot,
rattle-top, Cimicifuga racemosa, fetid bugbane, foetid bugbane, Cimicifuga foetida
• Member Holonyms:
Cimicifuga, genus Cimicifuga