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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bugbane \Bug"bane`\, n. (Bot.)
A perennial white-flowered herb of the order
{Ranunculace[ae]} and genus {Cimiciguga}; bugwort. There are
several species.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
bugbane
n 1: North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green
flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used
medicinally [syn: {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
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