RAUVOLFIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rauvolfia mean? 

• RAUVOLFIA (noun)
  The noun RAUVOLFIA has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: RAUVOLFIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAUVOLFIA (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

rauvolfia; rauwolfia

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)