Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rauwolfia_serpentina

1 sense of rauwolfia serpentina

Sense 1
snakewood, Rauwolfia serpentina -- (East Indian climbing shrub with twisted limbs and roots resembling serpents)
       => rauwolfia, rauvolfia -- (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)