bugbane Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally
    white hellebore; Indian poke; American hellebore; Veratrum viride.
  2. noun a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects

WordNet


Bug"bane` noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A perennial white-flowered herb of the order Ranunculaceæ and genus Cimiciguga; bugwort. There are several species.

Webster 1913