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RAUVOLFIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
rauvolfia; rauwolfia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("rauvolfia" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rauvolfia"):
Rauwolfia serpentina; snakewood (East Indian climbing shrub with twisted limbs and roots resembling serpents)
Holonyms ("rauvolfia" is a member of...):
genus Rauvolfia; genus Rauwolfia (pantropical genus of somewhat poisonous shrubs and small trees)
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