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Any of several African plants of the genus Strophanthus, some of which yield arrow poisons..
But where the conical explosive bullets of the twentieth century were of no avail, the poisoned arrows of the natives, dipped in the juice of strophanthus and steeped afterwards in decayed carrion, could succeed.
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Strophanthus means Any of several African plants of the genus Strophanthus, some of which yield arrow poisons..
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But where the conical explosive bullets of the twentieth century were of no avail, the poisoned arrows of the natives, dipped in the juice of strophanthus and steeped afterwards in decayed carrion, could succeed.
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