EGAVE

upas

About 0.05 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands, with poisonous secretions.
  2. noun A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows and derived from the tree.
  3. noun A poison prepared from the climbing plant Strychnos tieute.

Similar words

mulberry antiar amber tree purau araucarian sapucaia aroeira anamu acerola amboyna

Often followed by

tree of antiar trees a tieute the poison is

Word family

upases

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