bugbane   (TTS Sound)

The noun bugbane has 2 senses

• white hellebore, American hellebore, Indian poke, bugbane, Veratrum viride -- (North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally)


• bugbane -- (a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects)