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Bugbane has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
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

3

Actaea spp. (baneberry).

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
hellebore woody plant
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
American bugbane black cohosh fetid bugbane
Rhyming Words
ane bane pane vane nane zane cane jane rane sane dane fane wane lane tane mane brane amane jeane ruane
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