Associations to the word «Actaea»

Wiktionary

ACTAEA, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Ranunculaceae   — baneberry or bugbane, flowering plants native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
ACTAEA, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Xanthidae   — various mud crabs.
ACTAEA RACEMOSA, proper noun. A taxonomic species within the family Ranunculaceae   — black cohosh.
ACTAEA RACEMOSA, proper noun. Actaea spicata
ACTAEA RACEMOSA, proper noun. Trautvetteria caroliniensis
ACTAEA SECT. CIMICIFUGA, proper noun. A taxonomic section within the family Ranunculaceae.

Dictionary definition

ACTAEA, noun. Baneberry.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats