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GENUS RAUWOLFIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pantropical genus of somewhat poisonous shrubs and small trees
Synonyms:
genus Rauvolfia; genus Rauwolfia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Rauwolfia" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "genus Rauwolfia"):
rauvolfia; rauwolfia (any shrub or small tree of the genus Rauwolfia having leaves in whorls and cymose flowers; yield substances used medicinally especially as emetics or purgatives or antihypertensives)
Holonyms ("genus Rauwolfia" is a member of...):
Apocynaceae; dogbane family; family Apocynaceae (chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs)
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