CIMICIFUGA

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cimicifuga mean? 

• CIMICIFUGA (noun)
  The noun CIMICIFUGA has 1 sense:

1. small genus of perennial herbs of north temperate regions: bugbane

  Familiarity information: CIMICIFUGA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CIMICIFUGA (noun)

Meaning:

Small genus of perennial herbs of north temperate regions: bugbane

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cimicifuga; genus Cimicifuga

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)