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Strophanthus

noun

Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Strophanthus having whorled leaves and showy flowers of various colors in dense and corymbose clusters; some have poisonous seeds.

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Strophanthus kombe

genus Strophanthus

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"Strophanthus" Quotes from Famous Books

... ourselves time to reach the steps which led to safety. But where the conical explosive bullets of the twentieth century were of no avail, the poisoned arrows of the natives, dipped in the juice of strophanthus and steeped afterwards in decayed carrion, could succeed. Such arrows were of little avail to the hunter who attacked the beast, because their action in that torpid circulation was slow, and before its powers failed it could certainly ...

— The Lost World • Arthur Conan Doyle

Words linked to "Strophanthus" : bush, Strophanthus kombe, shrub