Library / English Dictionary

GENUS RAUVOLFIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pantropical genus of somewhat poisonous shrubs and small trees

Synonyms:

genus Rauvolfia; genus Rauwolfia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Rauvolfia" 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 Rauvolfia"):

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 Rauvolfia" 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)

Credits