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

• american hellebore
• indian poke
• veratrum viride
• white hellebore

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

• american bugbane
• cimicifuga americana
• summer cohosh
• black cohosh
• black snakeroot
• cimicifuga racemosa
• rattle-top
• cimicifuga foetida
• fetid bugbane
• foetid bugbane

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

• cimicifuga
• genus cimicifuga

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

• false hellebore
• hellebore

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

• ligneous plant
• woody plant