bugbane

bug·bane  (bgbn)

n.

Any of several plants of the genus Cimicifuga, native to northern temperate regions and including the black cohosh.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	bugbane - North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally American hellebore, Indian poke, Veratrum viride, white hellebore false hellebore, hellebore - perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes
	2.	bugbane - a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects Cimicifuga, genus Cimicifuga - small genus of perennial herbs of north temperate regions: bugbane American bugbane, Cimicifuga americana, summer cohosh - bugbane of the eastern United States having erect racemes of white flowers black cohosh, Cimicifuga racemosa, rattle-top, black snakeroot - 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 ligneous plant, woody plant - a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems