| NOUN | plant | bugbane, white hellebore, American hellebore, Indian poke, Veratrum viride | North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes |
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| plant | bugbane | a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects |
| Meaning | North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally. | |
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| Synonyms | white hellebore, American hellebore, Indian poke, Veratrum viride | |
| Broader | hellebore, false hellebore | perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes |
| Meaning | A plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects. | |
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| Member of | Cimicifuga, genus Cimicifuga | small genus of perennial herbs of north temperate regions |
| Narrower | American bugbane, summer cohosh, Cimicifuga americana | bugbane of the eastern United States having erect racemes of white flowers |
| black cohosh, black snakeroot, rattle-top, Cimicifuga racemosa | North American bugbane found from Maine and Ontario to Wisconsin and south to Georgia | |
| fetid bugbane, foetid bugbane, Cimicifuga foetida | bugbane of Siberia and eastern Asia having ill-smelling green-white flowers | |
| Broader | woody plant, ligneous plant | A plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems |
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