Definition of Genus Cimicifuga

1. Noun. Small genus of perennial herbs of north temperate regions: bugbane.

Exact synonyms: Cimicifuga
Generic synonyms: Magnoliid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Buttercup Family, Crowfoot Family, Family Ranunculaceae, Ranunculaceae
Member holonyms: Bugbane

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Cimicifuga

genus Chrysolepis
genus Chrysolophus
genus Chrysophrys
genus Chrysophyllum
genus Chrysopsis
genus Chrysosplenium
genus Chrysothamnus
genus Chunga
genus Cibotium
genus Cicada
genus Cicer
genus Cichorium
genus Ciconia
genus Cicuta
genus Cimex
genus Cimicifuga (current term)
genus Cinchona
genus Cinclus
genus Cinnamomum
genus Circaea
genus Circaetus
genus Circus
genus Cirsium
genus Cistothorus
genus Cistus
genus Citellus
genus Citharichthys
genus Citroncirus
genus Citrullus
genus Citrus

Literary usage of Genus Cimicifuga

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Drugs and medicines of North America: A Publication Devoted to the by John Uri Lloyd, Curtis Gates Lloyd (1885)
"... At that time but two of the species that now constitute the genus Cimicifuga (viz., the plant under consideration, and Cimicifuga ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1912)
"... under which it was classed until Pursh referred it to the genus Cimicifuga. Rafinesque (1808), owing to the fact that the fruit of the plant does not ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1898)
"This is the merging of the genus Cimicifuga into Actaea, by Dr. Prantl. It would appear to be a long step backward in classification to unite a genus ..."

4. The Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner (1884)
"genus Cimicifuga. (Bugbane). C. racemosa (Black Cohosh, Black Snake-root). Medical properties: Alterative, nervine, expectorant, emmenagogue, diuretic, ..."

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