noun
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
• Hypernyms: ↑hellebore, ↑false hellebore
2. a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects
• Hypernyms: ↑woody plant, ↑ligneous plant
• Hyponyms:
↑American bugbane, ↑summer cohosh, ↑Cimicifuga americana, ↑black cohosh, ↑black snakeroot, ↑rattle-top, ↑Cimicifuga racemosa, ↑fetid bugbane, ↑foetid bugbane, ↑Cimicifuga foetida
• Member Holonyms: ↑Cimicifuga, ↑genus Cimicifuga
Useful english dictionary. 2012.