STROPHANTHUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does strophanthus mean? 

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

1. any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Strophanthus having whorled leaves and showy flowers of various colors in dense and corymbose clusters; some have poisonous seeds

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STROPHANTHUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Strophanthus having whorled leaves and showy flowers of various colors in dense and corymbose clusters; some have poisonous seeds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("strophanthus" 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 "strophanthus"):

Strophanthus kombe (plant that is a source of strophanthin)

Holonyms ("strophanthus" is a member of...):

genus Strophanthus (genus of tropical Asiatic and African shrubs and woody vines and small trees)

 Context examples 

But where the conical explosive bullets of the twentieth century were of no avail, the poisoned arrows of the natives, dipped in the juice of strophanthus and steeped afterwards in decayed carrion, could succeed.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)