Bugbane - Definition
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, bugbane, Veratrum viride]
2: a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long
racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects