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Definition of Alstonia
1. Noun. Genus of evergreen trees or shrubs with white funnel-shaped flowers and milky sap; tropical Africa to southeastern Asia and Polynesia.
Exact synonyms: Genus Alstonia
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Apocynaceae, Dogbane Family, Family Apocynaceae
Member holonyms: Alstonia Scholaris, Devil Tree, Dita, Dita Bark
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Apocynaceae, Dogbane Family, Family Apocynaceae
Member holonyms: Alstonia Scholaris, Devil Tree, Dita, Dita Bark
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alstonia
Literary usage of Alstonia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Journal of Homoeopathy edited by John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell (1868)
"I feel, however, that homoeopathy requires no advocate, it will root itself
firmly, entirely on its own merits." alstonia ..."
2. The Vegetable Materia Medica of Western India by William Dymock (1885)
"Susruta gives the following formula for use in catarrhal fever. Take of the bark
of alstonia, steins of Tinospora cordifolia, ..."
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