bugbane

1. North American bugbane found from Main and Ontario to Wisconsin and south to Georgia. That law was modelled on measures already passed in Georgia and Arizona.
   北美升麻，分布于缅因州，安大略州，威斯康星州及乔治亚州南部。该法案仿效了在乔治亚州和亚利桑那州得到通过的法案。
2. It bears tall tapering racemes of white midsummer flowers on wiry black-purple stems, whose mildly unpleasant, medicinal smell at close range gives it the common name "Bugbane".
   于仲夏时节由结实的黑紫色的顶端抽出高耸的白色总状花序，不过它的花气味凑近时不太好闻。
3. Bugbane of Siberia and eastern Asia having ill-smelling green-white flowers.
   西伯利亚和东亚升麻，有异味，花绿白色。
4. Small genus of perennial herbs of north temperate regions: bugbane. Inducing sleep or sedation; soporific.
   北温带地区北部多年生草本植物的一个小属；美洲升麻，升麻属植物。

noun

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

2. North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes

   Synonym:    white helleboreAmerican helleboreIndian pokeVeratrum viride