cimicifuga foetida

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   bugbane of Siberia and eastern Asia having ill-smelling green-white flowers

   Synonymsfetid bugbanefoetid bugbane

   Broaderbugbane

Questions about cimicifuga foetida

What does cimicifuga foetida mean?

cimicifuga foetida means "bugbane of Siberia and eastern Asia having ill-smelling green-white flowers".

What is another word for cimicifuga foetida?

Close synonyms include fetid bugbane, foetid bugbane. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cimicifuga foetida a common word?

cimicifuga foetida is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.