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Poisonous tree of Java
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upas
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context usually countable botany English) A tree (taxlink Antiaris toxicaria species noshow=1) of the mulberry family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands, with poisonous secretions. 2 (context uncountable English) A virulent ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
legendary poisonous tree of Java, 1783, via Dutch, from Malay upas "poison," in pohun upas "poison tree." As the name of an actual tree ( Antiaris toxicaria ) yielding poisonous sap, from 1814.
Usage examples of upas.
They lived under the deadly shadow of the upas tree, and suffered the consequences of its stunting their development in all directions, as the ague-smitten inhabitant of the Roman Campana finds every sense and every muscle clogged by the filtering in of the insidious miasma.
He displayed his erudition, cited pell-mell cantharides, upas, the manchineel, vipers.
The famous deadly Upas Tree of the East Indies (Antiaris toxicaria, Lesc.
Está hecha con trenzas de mujeres muertas, que yo mismo cogí de sus tumbas a medianoche, y que luego sumergí en la mortífera savia del árbol de upas, para hacerlas resistentes.
You, ma'am,' he pointed a finger at Mrs Flawse, 'an undernourished vulture has more patience perched upon an upas tree than you with your squat backside on that bench.