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strophanthus |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Strophanthus \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: strophanthus 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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