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SNAKEWOOD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does snakewood mean?
• SNAKEWOOD (noun)
The noun SNAKEWOOD has 1 sense:
1. East Indian climbing shrub with twisted limbs and roots resembling serpents
Familiarity information: SNAKEWOOD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
East Indian climbing shrub with twisted limbs and roots resembling serpents
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Rauwolfia serpentina; snakewood
Hypernyms ("snakewood" is a kind of...):
rauvolfia; rauwolfia (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)
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