单词 | bugbane |
释义 | bugbane (once / 909178 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY bugbane USAGE EXAMPLESThe common name is bugbane; botanically it used to be known as cimicifuga. Seattle Times(Sep 10, 2014) Bugbane, the Siberian species being used to keep away such vermin. Gray, Asa, The Elements of Botany—For Beginner...(2010) ‘David’s’ snowy flowers play beautifully off the deep, dark leaves of the bugbane. Seattle Times(Sep 10, 2014) 1 n North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally 2Syn|Hyper American hellebore, Indian poke, Veratrum viride, white hellebore false hellebore, hellebore perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes n a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects Hypo|Hyper American bugbane, Cimicifuga americana, summer cohosh bugbane of the eastern United States having erect racemes of white flowers Cimicifuga racemosa, black cohosh, black snakeroot, rattle-topNorth American bugbane found from Maine and Ontario to Wisconsin and south to Georgia Cimicifuga foetida, fetid bugbane, foetid bugbanebugbane of Siberia and eastern Asia having ill-smelling green-white flowers ligneous plant, woody plant a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems |
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