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.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Alstonia

Alps
Alrisha
Alsace
Alsatia
Alsatian
Alsatians
Alsation
Alsea
Alshain
Alsobia
Alsobia dianthiflora
Alsophila
Alsophila pometaria
Alston
Alstonia (current term)
Alstonia scholaris
Alstroemeria pelegrina
Alstroemeriaceae
Alstrom's syndrome
Alsvid
Alt
Alt-A
AltGr
Alt Gr
Alta
Altai Krai
Altai Republic
Altaian
Altaic

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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