Word Meanings - STROPHANTHUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of tropical apocynaceous shrubs having singularly twisted flowers. One species (Strophanthus hispidus) is used medicinally as a cardiac sedative and stimulant.

• Havener
  A harbor master.
• Twisting
  of Twist
• Apocynaceous
  Alt. of Apocyneous
• Haversack
  A bag for oats or oatmeal.
• Haversian
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century.
• Twister
  One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.
• Cardiacal
  Cardiac.
• Havildar
  In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.
• Twistical
  Crooked; tortuous; hence, perverse; unfair; dishonest.
• Cardiacle
  A pain about the heart.
• APOCYNACEOUSAPOCYNEOUS
  Belonging to, or resembling, a family of plants, of which the dogbane (Apocynum) is the type.
• FLOWERSTATE
  Florida; -- a nickname, alluding to sense of L. floridus, from florida flowery. See Florid.

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