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Noun: rauvolfia
  1. 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
    - rauwolfia

Type of: bush, shrub

Part of: genus Rauvolfia, genus Rauwolfia

Encyclopedia: Rauvolfia