Type and usage of bugbane from BoostVocab

bugbane

/'bəɡ,beɪn/

noun
North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally
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Similar:

american hellebore indian poke veratrum viride white hellebore

type of:
false hellebore hellebore
noun
a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects
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type of:
woody plant ligneous plant

Definition that contains bugbane

foetid bugbane bugbane of Siberia and eastern Asia having ill-smelling green-white flowers
american bugbane bugbane of the eastern United States having erect racemes of white flowers
cimicifuga foetida bugbane of Siberia and eastern Asia having ill-smelling green-white flowers
cimicifuga americana bugbane of the eastern United States having erect racemes of white flowers
fetid bugbane bugbane of Siberia and eastern Asia having ill-smelling green-white flowers
summer cohosh bugbane of the eastern United States having erect racemes of white flowers

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