ligneous plant vs bugbane

bugbane vs ligneous plant

ligneous plant and bugbane both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ligneous plant	Yes	No	No	No
bugbane	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, bugbane is a hyponym of ligneous plant; that is, bugbane is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than ligneous plant:

ligneous plant: a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems
bugbane: a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects

Other hyponyms of ligneous plant include melilot, melilotus, sweet clover, aralia, combretum, ravenala, Ravenala madagascariensis, traveler's tree, traveller's tree, Pipturus argenteus, Queensland grass-cloth plant, milk-vetch, milk vetch, false indigo, wild indigo, bush clover, lespedeza, lupin, lupine, bignoniad, gesneriad, figwort, nightshade, lignosae, arborescent plant, tree, bush, shrub, bramble.

ligneous plant (noun)	bugbane (noun)
a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems	a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects
	North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally

Difference between ligneous plant and bugbane

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