Home › Words › B › bugbanebugbanebugbane means actaea spp. (baneberry).EtymologyFrom bug + bane.nounActaea spp. (baneberry).e.g.““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:Trautvetteria spp.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.baneberry 75% match — A flowering plant of the genus Actaea (syn. Cimicifuga). vs bugbane →bugwort 69% match — The plant bugbane. vs bugbane →cimicifuga 64% match — Any member of the former genus Cimicifuga, now Actaea sect. Cimicifuga, of flowering plants: bugbane or cohosh. vs bugbane →cowbane 58% match — Any of several related poisonous plants of the genus Cicuta vs bugbane →colchica 58% match — dogbane vs bugbane →banewort 57% match — Atropa belladonna, deadly nightshade. vs bugbane →agueweed 55% match — The common boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum). vs bugbane →foxbane 55% match — A species of wolfsbane with yellow flowers, Aconitum vulparia. vs bugbane →