Noun bugbane has 2 senses
  1. white hellebore, American hellebore, Indian poke, bugbane, Veratrum viride - North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally
    --1 is a kind of hellebore, false hellebore
  2. bugbane - a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects
    --2 is a kind of
    woody plant, ligneous plant
    --2 is a member of Cimicifuga, genus Cimicifuga
    --2 has particulars:
     American bugbane, summer cohosh, Cimicifuga americana; black cohosh, black snakeroot, rattle-top, Cimicifuga racemosa; fetid bugbane, foetid bugbane, Cimicifuga foetida
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