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GENUS RAUWOLFIA

• GENUS RAUWOLFIA (noun)
The noun GENUS RAUWOLFIA has 1 sense:

1. pantropical genus of somewhat poisonous shrubs and small trees

Familiarity information: GENUS RAUWOLFIA used as a noun is very rare.

• GENUS RAUWOLFIA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Pantropical genus of somewhat poisonous shrubs and small trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Rauvolfia; genus Rauwolfia

Hypernyms ("genus Rauwolfia" 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 Rauwolfia"):

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 Rauwolfia" 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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