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RAUWOLFIA

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 I. (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

Synonyms:

rauvolfia; rauwolfia

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("rauwolfia" 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 "rauwolfia"):

Rauwolfia serpentina; snakewood (East Indian climbing shrub with twisted limbs and roots resembling serpents)

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

genus Rauvolfia; genus Rauwolfia (pantropical genus of somewhat poisonous shrubs and small trees)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several alkaloids extracted from the shrub Rauwolfia serpentina

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("rauwolfia" is a kind of...):

alkaloid (natural bases containing nitrogen found in plants)

Holonyms ("rauwolfia" is a substance of...):

Rau-Sed; Raudixin; reserpine; Sandril; Serpasil (antihypertensive consisting of an alkaloid extracted from the plant Rauwolfia serpentina (trade names Raudixin or Rau-Sed or Sandril or Serpasil))

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