Crossword clues for colubrina
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.
Wikipedia
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 nakedwood, snakewood, greenheart and hogplum. The generic name is derived from the Latin word coluber, meaning "snake", and refers to the snake-like stems or stamens.
The species are shrubs and small trees growing tall, with simple ovate leaves. The flowers are small, greenish-white or yellowish; the fruit is a capsule containing three seeds.
The genus is at least in part a wastebasket taxon, and revision will likely result in the renaming of a number of species to different genera.
Colubrina asiatica, native to tropical Asia, eastern Africa and northern Australia, has become an invasive species in Florida.
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.