English noun: bugbane |
1. | bugbane (plant) North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally |
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| Synonyms | American hellebore, Indian poke, Veratrum viride, white hellebore |
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| Broader (hypernym) | false hellebore, hellebore |
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2. | bugbane (plant) a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects |
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| Broader (hypernym) | ligneous plant, woody plant |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | American bugbane, black cohosh, black snakeroot, Cimicifuga americana, Cimicifuga foetida, Cimicifuga racemosa, fetid bugbane, foetid bugbane, rattle-top, summer cohosh |
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| Member meronym | Cimicifuga, genus Cimicifuga |
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