strophanthus

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

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

From the genus name.

“Is infusion of strophanthus seeds used in medicine?” the coroner asked. — The blue scarab, R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman
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. — The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle

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