bugbane
noun
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally
Types & categories
- hellebore hypernym
Sense 2 noun
a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects
Types & categories
- woody plant hypernym
- American bugbane hyponym
- black cohosh hyponym
- fetid bugbane hyponym
Parts & wholes
- Cimicifuga member holonym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | hellebore |
| 2 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Cimicifuga |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | woody plant |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | American bugbane |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | black cohosh |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | fetid bugbane |