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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. any of several alkaloids extracted from the shrub Rauwolfia serpentina;

2. 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;
[syn: rauwolfia, rauvolfia]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

rauwolfia
    n 1: any of several alkaloids extracted from the shrub Rauwolfia
         serpentina
    2: 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 [syn: rauwolfia, rauvolfia]