Definition of Bugbane

Noun: bugbane  'búg,beyn

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

See also:
Buganda
bugbanes

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