Translingual

Proper noun

Cimicifuga f

1. (archaic) A taxonomic genus within the family Ranunculaceae – now treated as Actaea sect. Cimicifuga.

Derived terms

• See Cimicifuga at The Plant List

English

Wikispecies

Noun

cimicifuga ‎(plural cimicifugas)

1. Any member of the former genus Cimicifuga, now Actaea sect. Cimicifuga, of flowering plants: bugbane or cohosh.
   • 2007 July 12, Leslie Land, “Garden Q.&A.”, in New York Times:

     You can also have a long bloom season by including fall-flowering plants like chrysanthemums, anemones, cimicifugas, fall-blooming crocuses and false crocuses (colchicums).