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    SNAKEWOOD

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    East Indian climbing shrub with twisted limbs and roots resembling serpentsplay

    Synonyms:

    Rauwolfia serpentina; snakewood

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("snakewood" 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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