upas

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.”

2. isim A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows and derived from the tree.
3. isim A poison prepared from the climbing plant Strychnos tieute.