Definition of Cimicifuga americana

1. Noun. Bugbane of the eastern United States having erect racemes of white flowers.

Exact synonyms: American Bugbane, Summer Cohosh
Generic synonyms: Bugbane

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cimicifuga Americana

Cilician
Cilincing
Cilioflagellata
Cilla
Cillobacterium
Cimabue
Cimarron River
Cimbrian
Cimbrians
Cimbric
Cimbáeth
Cimex
Cimex lectularius
Cimicidae
Cimicifuga
Cimicifuga americana
Cimicifuga foetida
Cimicifuga racemosa
Cimino
Cimmerian
Cimmerians
Cinchona calisaya
Cinchona cordifolia
Cinchona lancifolia
Cinchona ledgeriana
Cinchona officinalis
Cinchona pubescens
Cincinnati
Cincinnatian
Cincinnatians

Literary usage of Cimicifuga americana

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Drugs and medicines of North America: A Publication Devoted to the by John Uri Lloyd, Curtis Gates Lloyd (1885)
"Michaux first described the plant in 1803 as cimicifuga americana, which name it ... cimicifuga americana resembles Cimicifuga racemosa so closely that our ..."

2. Publication by Field Museum of Natural History (1902)
"Fl. W. Va., 322 (1892). DELPHINIUM CONSOLIDA Linn. ACONITUM UNCINATUM Linn. cimicifuga americana Michx. CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA (Linn.) Nutt. ..."

3. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1894)
"cimicifuga americana Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 316(1803). 1722. Cimicifuga cordifolia Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 373 (1814). 1723. Cimicifuga racemosa (L.) Nutt. ..."

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