Found 2 items, similar to strophanthus.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: strophanthus 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
English → English (gcide) Definition: Strophanthus 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]