strophanthus
noun
strophanthus is a noun meaning “Any of several African plants of the genus Strophanthus, some of which yield arrow poisons” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-T-R-O-P-H-A-N-T-H-U-S, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of strophanthus is strophanthuses.
What does strophanthus mean?
noun
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Any of several African plants of the genus Strophanthus, some of which yield arrow poisons.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of strophanthus
- strophanthuses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is strophanthus?
Strophanthus appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does strophanthus come from?
From the genus name.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).