Definitions for bugbane

Overview of noun bugbane

The noun bugbane has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. white hellebore, American hellebore, Indian poke, bugbane, Veratrum viride

(North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally)

2. bugbane

(a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects)