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Rauwolfia

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of several small trees and shrubs, of the genus Rauwolfia, that yield materials of medical use.
  2. 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 wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of a group of alkaloids extracted from these trees.
  4. 4
    any of several alkaloids extracted from the shrub Rauwolfia serpentina wordnet

Etymology

From the genus name.

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