BUGBANE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bugbane mean? 

• BUGBANE (noun)
  The noun BUGBANE has 2 senses:

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

2. a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects

  Familiarity information: BUGBANE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUGBANE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American hellebore; bugbane; Indian poke; Veratrum viride; white hellebore

Hypernyms ("bugbane" is a kind of...):

false hellebore; hellebore (perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("bugbane" is a kind of...):

ligneous plant; woody plant (a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bugbane"):

American bugbane; Cimicifuga americana; summer cohosh (bugbane of the eastern United States having erect racemes of white flowers)

black cohosh; black snakeroot; Cimicifuga racemosa; rattle-top (North American bugbane found from Maine and Ontario to Wisconsin and south to Georgia)

Cimicifuga foetida; fetid bugbane; foetid bugbane (bugbane of Siberia and eastern Asia having ill-smelling green-white flowers)

Holonyms ("bugbane" is a member of...):

Cimicifuga; genus Cimicifuga (small genus of perennial herbs of north temperate regions: bugbane)

 Context examples 

The Largetrifoliolious bugbane rhizome supplement contains total saponins, including phytoestrogens that can modulate estrogen receptor signaling.

(Largetrifoliolious Bugbane Rhizome Supplement, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called black cohosh, bugbane, bugwort, and rattlesnake root.

(Black snakeroot, NCI Dictionary)

Also called black snakeroot, bugbane, bugwort, and rattlesnake root.

(Black cohosh, NCI Dictionary)

Also called black cohosh, black snakeroot, bugbane, and rattlesnake root.

(Bugwort, NCI Dictionary)