Definitions for dogbane

dogbane dog·bane

Spelling: [dawg-beyn, dog-]
IPA: /ˈdɔgˌbeɪn, ˈdɒg-/

Dogbane is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 218 anagrams from letters in dogbane (abdegno).

Definitions for dogbane

noun

  1. any of several plants of the genus Apocynum, especially A. androsaemifolium, yielding an acrid milky juice and having an intensely bitter root.

Origin of dogbane

First recorded in 1590-1600; dog + bane

Examples for dogbane

Cream′-fruit, the fruit of a creeping West African plant of the dogbane family, yielding a cream-like juice; Cream′iness.

Vinca, ving′ka, n. a genus of woody herbaceous plants of the dogbane family, the periwinkles.

Allied to the milkweed is another plant, the dogbane (Apocynum), which has a similar trick of entrapping its insect friends.

Word Value for dogbane
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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