rauwolfia serpentina

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   East Indian climbing shrub with twisted limbs and roots resembling serpents

   Synonymssnakewood

   Broaderrauwolfia

Questions about rauwolfia serpentina

What does rauwolfia serpentina mean?

rauwolfia serpentina means "East Indian climbing shrub with twisted limbs and roots resembling serpents".

What is another word for rauwolfia serpentina?

Close synonyms include snakewood. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rauwolfia serpentina a common word?

rauwolfia serpentina is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.