Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bugbane

2 senses of bugbane

Sense 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)
       => hellebore, false hellebore -- (perennial herbs of the lily family having thick toxic rhizomes)

Sense 2
bugbane -- (a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects)
       => woody plant, ligneous plant -- (a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems)