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Definition of Bugbane
1. Noun. North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally.
Generic synonyms: False Hellebore, Hellebore
2. Noun. A plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects.
Specialized synonyms: American Bugbane, Cimicifuga Americana, Summer Cohosh, Black Cohosh, Black Snakeroot, Cimicifuga Racemosa, Rattle-top, Cimicifuga Foetida, Fetid Bugbane, Foetid Bugbane
Generic synonyms: Ligneous Plant, Woody Plant
Definition of Bugbane
1. n. A perennial white-flowered herb of the order Ranunculaceæ and genus Cimiciguga; bugwort. There are several species.
Definition of Bugbane
1. Noun. The baneberry. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bugbane
1. a perennial herb [n -S]
Medical Definition of Bugbane
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bugbane
Literary usage of Bugbane
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plant-breeding: Being Six Lectures Upon the Amelioration of Domestic Plants by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1912)
"The wild bugbane, or cimicifuga, is seen in Fig. 6, natural size. Here is a long
spike or cluster of flowers. At the top are the unopened buds, ..."
2. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1859)
"(AMERICAN bugbane.) Racemes slender, panicled ; ovaries mostly 5, glabrous ; pods
stalked, flattened, veiny, ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"... A mushroom that used to be smeared over bedsteads to destroy bugs.'—Prior, p.
31. bugbane. Given by Nemnich as 'a. Cimicifuga; b. ..."
4. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"FALSE bugbane. Sepals usually 4 (3 to 5), concave, petal-like, soon deciduous.
Petals none. Pistils numerous. ..."
5. How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of by Frances Theodora Parsons (1895)
"bugbane. BLACK SNAKEROOT. Cimicifuga racemosa. Crowfoot Family. Stem.—Three to
eight feet high. Leaves.—Divided, the leaflets toothed or incised. Flowers. ..."
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