- rauwolfia, rauvolfia - any shrub or small tree of the genus Rauwolfia having leaves in whorls and cymose flowers; yield substances used medicinally especially as emetics or purgatives or antihypertensives
--1 is a kind of shrub, bush
--1 is a member of genus Rauwolfia, genus Rauvolfia
--1 has particulars: snakewood, Rauwolfia serpentina