rauwolfia serpentina

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1. East Indian climbing shrub with twisted limbs and roots resembling serpents (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	rauvolfia, rauwolfia,
definition	:	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 (noun.plant)