English > Apocynaceae: 1 sense > noun 1, plantMeaning | chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs. |
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Synonyms | family Apocynaceae, dogbane family |
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Member of | Gentianales, order Gentianales | An order of dicotyledonous plants having gamopetalous flowers |
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Members | Acocanthera, genus Acocanthera, Acokanthera, genus Acokanthera | small genus of trees and shrubs containing strongly toxic cardiac glycosides |
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Adenium, genus Adenium | One species |
Alstonia, genus Alstonia | genus of evergreen trees or shrubs with white funnel-shaped flowers and milky sap |
Amsonia, genus Amsonia | genus of herbs and subshrubs with milky juice and showy bluish flowers |
Apocynum, genus Apocynum | perennial herbs with small pink or white flowers |
Beaumontia, genus Beaumontia | small genus of evergreen woody vines in the East Indies and Asia |
Catharanthus, genus Catharanthus | small genus of erect annual or perennial herbs native to Madagascar / Madagascar |
Holarrhena, genus Holarrhena | genus of deciduous trees and shrubs of tropical Africa and Asia |
Mandevilla, genus Mandevilla, Dipladenia, genus Dipladenia | genus of tropical South American tuberous perennial woody vines with large racemose flowers and milky sap |
Nerium, genus Nerium | One species |
Plumeria, genus Plumeria, Plumiera | deciduous shrubs and trees of tropical America having branches like candelabra and fragrant white or pink / pink flowers |
Tabernaemontana, genus Tabernaemontana | evergreen tropical trees and shrubs with milky sap |
Thevetia, genus Thevetia | genus of poisonous tropical American evergreen shrubs and trees having entire leaves and large cymose flowers |
Trachelospermum, genus Trachelospermum | genus of Asiatic woody vines with milky sap in leaves and stems |
Vinca, genus Vinca | periwinkles |
genus Allamanda | genus of tropical American woody vines |
genus Carissa | Old World genus of tropical evergreen usually spiny shrubs |
genus Rauwolfia, genus Rauvolfia | pantropical genus of somewhat poisonous shrubs and small trees |
genus Strophanthus | genus of tropical Asiatic and African shrubs and woody vines and small trees |
Broader | dicot family, magnoliopsid family | family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
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Spanish | apocináceas |
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Catalan | apocinàcia, Apocynaceae |
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Adjectives | apocynaceous | of or relating to tropical plants of the family Apocynaceae |
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