Madagascar periwinkle
noun
An ornamental pink- or white-flowered plant, Catharanthus roseus (family Apocynaceae), perhaps native to tropical America, and widely cultivated and naturalized elsewhere in the tropics (the plant is the source of the drugs vincristine and vinblastine).
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in Thomas Martyn (1735–1825), botanist.
- municipal borough
- municipal court
- municipalise
- municipalism
- municipalist
- municipality
- municipalization
- municipalize
- municipal judge
- municipally
- municipal socialism
- municipio
- municipium
- munificence
- munificent
- munificently
- muniments
- muninga
- munition
- munitioneer
- munitioner
- munitionette
- munition girl
- munition house
- munition ship