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POISON ARROW PLANT
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Medium-sized shrubby tree of South Africa having thick leathery evergreen leaves and white or pink flowers and globose usually two-seeded purplish black fruits
Synonyms:
Acocanthera oblongifolia; Acocanthera spectabilis; poison arrow plant; winter sweet
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("poison arrow plant" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("poison arrow plant" is a member of...):
Acocanthera; Acokanthera; genus Acocanthera; genus Acokanthera (small genus of trees and shrubs containing strongly toxic cardiac glycosides; Arabia to Africa)
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