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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 | ||
| Synonyms | American hellebore, Indian poke, Veratrum viride, white hellebore | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | false hellebore, hellebore | ||
| 2. | bugbane (plant) a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | ligneous plant, woody plant | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | American bugbane, black cohosh, black snakeroot, Cimicifuga americana, Cimicifuga foetida, Cimicifuga racemosa, fetid bugbane, foetid bugbane, rattle-top, summer cohosh | ||
| Member meronym | Cimicifuga, genus Cimicifuga | ||
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