ACOCANTHERA SPECTABILIS

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Meaning:

Medium-sized shrubby tree of South Africa having thick leathery evergreen leaves and white or pink flowers and globose usually two-seeded purplish black fruits

Synonyms:

Acocanthera oblongifolia; Acocanthera spectabilis; poison arrow plant; winter sweet

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Acocanthera spectabilis" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("Acocanthera spectabilis" is a member of...):

Acocanthera; Acokanthera; genus Acocanthera; genus Acokanthera (small genus of trees and shrubs containing strongly toxic cardiac glycosides; Arabia to Africa)

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