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RAUWOLFIA SERPENTINA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
East Indian climbing shrub with twisted limbs and roots resembling serpents
Synonyms:
Rauwolfia serpentina; snakewood
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Hypernyms ("Rauwolfia serpentina" is a kind of...):
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)