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SNAKEWOOD

Dictionary entry overview: What does snakewood mean?

• SNAKEWOOD (noun)
The noun SNAKEWOOD has 1 sense:

1. East Indian climbing shrub with twisted limbs and roots resembling serpents

Familiarity information: SNAKEWOOD used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SNAKEWOOD (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

East Indian climbing shrub with twisted limbs and roots resembling serpents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Rauwolfia serpentina; snakewood

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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