ACTAEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Actaea mean? 

• ACTAEA (noun)
  The noun ACTAEA has 1 sense:

1. baneberry

  Familiarity information: ACTAEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACTAEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Baneberry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Actaea; genus Actaea

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

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Actaea"):

baneberry; cohosh; herb Christopher (a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries)

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

buttercup family; crowfoot family; family Ranunculaceae; Ranunculaceae (a family of Ranunculaceae)

 Context examples 

A triterpene-containing herb isolated from the roots and rhizomes of the plant Cimicifuga racemosa (also known as Actaea racemosa).

(Black cohosh, NCI Thesaurus)