bugbane
nounEtymology From bug + bane.
1
Actaea spp. (baneberry).
- “What on earth did you put in that stuff?” “Bug-bane, barren-wort, penny-cress and blood-root, catchfly, toad-flax, nap-weed and wormwood,” said Catweazle.1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 177:
2
Trautvetteria spp.
- Derived terms
- Carolina bugbane