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Mostly tropical American shrubs or small trees with small yellowish flowers and yellow or red fruits
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colubrina
Word definitions for colubrina in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colubrina \Colubrina\ n. a genus of mostly tropical American shrubs or small trees with small yellowish flowers and yellow or red fruits. Syn: genus Colubrina .
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Colubrina is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae , native to warm temperate to tropical regions of Africa , the Americas , southern Asia , northern Australia , and the Indian Ocean islands. Common names include ...
Usage examples of colubrina.
Instead of having watered his cabbage with arsenic, he had watered it this time with a solution of salts, having their basis in strychnine, strychnos colubrina, as the learned term it.