Home › Words › C › cimicifugacimicifugacimicifuga · noun — any member of the former genus Cimicifuga, now Actaea sect. Cimicifuga, of flowering plants: bugbane or cohosh.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyFrom the genus name.nounAny member of the former genus Cimicifuga, now Actaea sect. Cimicifuga, of flowering plants: bugbane or cohosh.e.g.“You can also have a long bloom season by including fall-flowering plants like chrysanthemums, anemones, cimicifugas, fall-blooming crocuses and false crocuses (colchicums).” — 2007 July 12, Leslie Land, “Garden Q.&A.”, in New York Times:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.bugbane 64% match — Actaea spp. (baneberry). vs cimicifuga →baneberry 62% match — A flowering plant of the genus Actaea (syn. Cimicifuga). vs cimicifuga →cimicoid 58% match — Resembling or being a member of the Cimicidae; buglike. vs cimicifuga →cimex 56% match — Any member of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug. vs cimicifuga →cimicid 56% match — Any member of the family Cimicidae, such as bedbugs. vs cimicifuga →cohosh 56% match — A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides), the rough rootstock of which is used in medicine. vs cimicifuga →cowbane 54% match — Any of several related poisonous plants of the genus Cicuta vs cimicifuga →bugwort 53% match — The plant bugbane. vs cimicifuga →