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    GENUS RAUVOLFIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Pantropical genus of somewhat poisonous shrubs and small treesplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Rauvolfia; genus Rauwolfia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Rauvolfia" is a kind of...):

    dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Rauvolfia"):

    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)

    Holonyms ("genus Rauvolfia" is a member of...):

    Apocynaceae; dogbane family; family Apocynaceae (chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs)

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