RAUWOLFIA SERPENTINA

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Meaning:

East Indian climbing shrub with twisted limbs and roots resembling serpents

Synonyms:

Rauwolfia serpentina; snakewood

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Rauwolfia serpentina" is a kind of...):

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)

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