Strophanthus

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Strophanthus \Stro*phan"thus\, n. [NL., from Gr. ? a turning + ?
     a flower.] (Bot.)
     A genus of tropical apocynaceous shrubs having singularly
     twisted flowers. One species ({Strophanthus hispidus}) is
     used medicinally as a cardiac sedative and stimulant.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  strophanthus
       n : any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus
           Strophanthus having whorled leaves and showy flowers of
           various colors in dense and few-flowered corymbose
           clusters; some have poisonous seeds