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Noun: snakewood
  1. East Indian climbing shrub with twisted limbs and roots resembling serpents
    - Rauwolfia serpentina
Noun: snake wood
  1. Tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems
    - trumpetwood, trumpet-wood, trumpet tree, imbauba, Cecropia peltata

Derived forms: snakewoods, snake woods

Type of: angiospermous tree, flowering tree, rauvolfia, rauwolfia

Part of: Cecropia, genus Cecropia

Encyclopedia: Snakewood