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   fetid bugbane
         n 1: bugbane of Siberia and eastern Asia having ill-smelling
               green-white flowers [syn: {fetid bugbane}, {foetid
               bugbane}, {Cimicifuga foetida}]

English Dictionary: foetid bugbane by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
foetid bugbane
n
  1. bugbane of Siberia and eastern Asia having ill-smelling green-white flowers
    Synonym(s): fetid bugbane, foetid bugbane, Cimicifuga foetida
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
foetid pothos
n
  1. deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe
    Synonym(s): skunk cabbage, polecat weed, foetid pothos, Symplocarpus foetidus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Buckeye \Buck"eye`\, n.
      1. (Bot.) A name given to several American trees and shrubs
            of the same genus ({[92]sculus}) as the horse chestnut.
  
      {The Ohio buckeye}, [or] {Fetid buckeye}, is {[92]sculus
            glabra}.
  
      {Red buckeye} is {[92]. Pavia}.
  
      {Small buckeye} is {[92]. paviflora}.
  
      {Sweet buckeye}, [or] {Yellow buckeye}, is {[92]. flava}.
  
      2. A cant name for a native in Ohio. [U.S.]
  
      {Buckeye State}, Ohio; -- so called because buckeye trees
            abound there.
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