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upas

noun upases

countable, usually A tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands, with poisonous secretions. [I]t is an all-blasting upas, whose root is earth, and whose leaves are the skies which rain their poison-dews upon mankind.
Similar: bohun upas
uncountable, usually A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows and derived from the tree.
uncountable, usually A poison prepared from the climbing plant Strychnos tieute.
Similar: upas tieute

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noun tree

中文	見血封喉 /见血封喉 jiànxuèfēnghóu
Português	antiar
Français	upas antiar
Русский	анча́р ančár, упа́с upás
Tiếng Việt	sui, thuốc bắn

noun poison from Antiaris toxicaria

Português	antiar

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@misc{upas_2026,
  title = {upas},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/upas},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}