bugbane - Similar and Opposite Words

What is another word for bugbane ?

Here are the synonyms for bugbane , a list of similar words for bugbane from our thesaurus that you can use

Noun

a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects

Synonyms

• bugbane

More generic

• ligneous plant
• woody plant

More specific

• American bugbane
• Cimicifuga americana
• Cimicifuga foetida
• Cimicifuga racemosa
• black cohosh
• black snakeroot
• fetid bugbane
• foetid bugbane
• rattle-top
• summer cohosh

Related

• Cimicifuga
• genus Cimicifuga

Noun

North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally

Synonyms

• American hellebore
• Indian poke
• Veratrum viride
• bugbane
• white hellebore

More generic

• false hellebore
• hellebore

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