POISON ARROW PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poison arrow plant mean? 

• POISON ARROW PLANT (noun)
  The noun POISON ARROW PLANT has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: POISON ARROW PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

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• POISON ARROW PLANT (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Acocanthera oblongifolia; Acocanthera spectabilis; poison arrow plant; winter sweet

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)