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dogsbane

dogsbane is the alternative spelling of dogbane.

Meaning of dogbane

Noun

dogbane (countable and uncountable, plural dogbanes)

  1. Any plant in the genus Apocynum, eponymous of the dogbane family Apocynaceae.
    • Most dogbanes are poisonous tropical plants producing showy flowers and milky juice
    Synonyms:
    colchica

Forms of dogsbane

pluraldogsbanes

Questions about dogsbane

What is dogsbane the alternative spelling of?
Dogsbane is the alternative spelling of dogbane.

Words near dogsbane in the dictionary

  1. dogs' lives
  2. dogs**t
  3. dogs-bane
  4. dogs-banes
  5. dogsat
  6. dogsbane
  7. dogsbanes
  8. dogsbodied
  9. dogsbodies
  10. dogsbody
  11. dogsbodying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dogsbane (page history and authors); dogbane (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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