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CIMICIFUGA

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Meaning:

Small genus of perennial herbs of north temperate regions: bugbane

Synonyms:

Cimicifuga; genus Cimicifuga

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Cimicifuga" is a kind of...):

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Cimicifuga"):

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

Holonyms ("Cimicifuga" is a member of...):

buttercup family; crowfoot family; family Ranunculaceae; Ranunculaceae (a family of Ranunculaceae)

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