1. East Indian climbing shrub with twisted limbs and roots resembling serpents
   "The snakewood's serpentine appearance gave rise to its name";
   - Rauwolfia serpentina

1. Tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems
   "Indigenous people used snake wood to make musical instruments";
   - trumpetwood, trumpet-wood, trumpet tree, imbauba, Cecropia peltata

Derived forms: snakewoods, snake woods

Type of: angiospermous tree, flowering tree, rauvolfia, rauwolfia

Part of: Cecropia, genus Cecropia

Encyclopedia: Snakewood