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bugbane

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bug·bane  (bgbn)
n.
Any of several plants of the genus Cimicifuga, native to northern temperate regions and including the black cohosh.
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Noun1.bugbanebugbane - North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally
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


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