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Cimicifuga

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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in botany, a small genus of herbaceous plants, of the natural order Ranunculaceae, which is widely distributed in the north temperate zone. C. foetida, bugbane, is used as a preventive against vermin; and the root of a North American species, C. racemosa, known as black snake-root, as an emetic.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Cimicifuga'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​c/cimicifuga.html. 1910.
 
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