1) Antiar tree 2) Arrow poison 3) Arrow-poison tree 4) Asian evergreen 5) Javanese 6) Javanese tree 7) Mulberry 8) Poison tree 9) Poison-bearing tree 10) Poisonous sap 11) Poisonous tree 12) Source of arrow poison 13) Tall Javanese tree 14) The tree itself 15) Tree of java 16) Tree of the mulberry family
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poisonous or harmful institution or influence
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• (n.) A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is, derived from upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute is prepared from a climbing plant (Strychnos Tieute). • (n.) A tree (Antiaris toxicaria) of the Breadfruit family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring island...
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1. <botany> A tree (Antiaris toxicaria) of the Breadfruit family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands. Its secretions are poisonous, and it has been fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is deleterious. Called also bohun upas. ... 2. A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows....
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The upas (Antiaris toxicaria) is a tree of the family Urticaceae, allied to the fig, hop and nettle, found in Java and exuding a milky white juice called antiarin which is allied to strychnia. The milky juice that exudes from the incised bark is extremely virulent and is used for poisoning arrows. On the basis of this single fact a mass of legend w...
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Upas is a virulent Malay poison used for tipping arrows.
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the poisonous milky sap of a large tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, native to tropical Asia, Africa, and the Philippine Islands, used for arrow poison. · the tree itself.
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