जीनस स्ट्रॉफंथस के विभिन्न झाड़ियों या छोटे पेड़ों में से कोई भी घने और corymbose क्लस्टर में विभिन्न रंगों के पत्तियों और दिखावटी फूलों के साथ; कुछ में जहरीले बीज होते हैं

strophanthus's Usage Examples:

- This group-name has been given to a large number of substances which have an action similar to that of the foxglove leaves, including the active principles of strophanthus, squill, Urechites suberecta, Convallaria majalis, Nerium Oleander, Helleborus niger, Antiaris toxicaria (the upas tree), and several others.

The introduction into practical use of many medicines, such as paraldehyde, phenazone and strophanthus, has followed the study of their actions on animals, and this tends to be more and more the case.

The median vein is occasionally prolonged beyond the summit of the petals in the form of a long process, as in Strophanthus hispidus, where it extends for 7 in.; or the prolonged extremity is folded downwards or inflexed, as in Umbelliferae, so that the apex approaches the base.

Jahns (Ber., 1885, 18, p. 2518), and is found in the seeds of Trigonella and Strophanthus hispidus.

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This Strophanthus is not remarkable for its rubber - which is mere bird lime - but for the powerful poison of its seeds, often used for poisoning arrows, but of late much in use as a drug for treating diseases of the heart.

In this order is the genus Strophanthus,.

Strophanthus.

strophanthus's Meaning':

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

Synonyms:

Strophanthus kombe, bush, genus Strophanthus, shrub,

Antonyms:

fauna, superior,