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Meaning of STROPHANTHUS

Pronunciation:  strow'fanthus

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Strophanthus having whorled leaves and showy flowers of various colors in dense and few-flowered corymbose clusters; some have poisonous seeds
 
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 See Also: bush, genus Strophanthus, shrub, Strophanthus kombe

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Stro*phan"thus\, n. [NL., from Gr. ? a turning + ?
a flower.] (Bot.)
A genus of tropical apocynaceous shrubs having singularly
twisted flowers. One species ({Strophanthus hispidus}) is
used medicinally as a cardiac sedative and stimulant.
 
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