strophanthus

See also: Strophanthus

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

strophanthus (plural strophanthuses)

1. Any of several African plants of the genus Strophanthus, some of which yield arrow poisons.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     But where the conical explosive bullets of the twentieth century were of no avail, the poisoned arrows of the natives, dipped in the juice of strophanthus and steeped afterwards in decayed carrion, could succeed.