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
   "Rauvolfia extracts were once commonly used to treat high blood pressure";
   - rauwolfia

Type of: bush, shrub

Part of: genus Rauvolfia, genus Rauwolfia

Encyclopedia: Rauvolfia