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| aconite |
a plant of the buttercup family, that has poisonous and medicinal properties; monkshood. [1/2 definitions] |
| anemone |
a type of plant related to the buttercup and characterized by large white, blue, purple, or red flowers. [1/2 definitions] |
| baneberry |
a plant of the buttercup family that bears white flowers and fleshy poisonous red or white berries. [1/2 definitions] |
| black cohosh |
an eastern North American perennial herb (Cimicifuga racemosa, or Actaea racemosa) of the buttercup family, the rhizome and roots of which are used as an herbal remedy. |
| bugbane |
any of various flowering plants related to the buttercup, bearing clusters of white flowers whose smell supposedly repels insects. |
| celandine |
a yellow-flowered plant of the buttercup family. [1/2 definitions] |
| cohosh |
a common name for several unrelated plants, including Cimicifuga racemosa (black cohosh) of the buttercup family and Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohosh) of the barberry family, both used medicinally. |
| columbine |
any of several plants related to the buttercup, bearing varicolored flowers having five spurred petals. |
| delphinium |
a cultivated plant related to the buttercup that bears tall, showy spikes of flowers; larkspur. |
| goldenseal |
a North American woodland plant of the buttercup family, having large round leaves and a thick yellow rootstock and bearing small greenish white flowers. [1/2 definitions] |
| meadow rue |
any of a genus of perennial plants of the buttercup family that have ruelike leaves and bear clusters of small, white, yellow, or purple flowers. |
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