Meaning of upas | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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Examples

“[I]t is an all-blasting upas, whose root is earth, and whose leaves are the skies which rain their poison-dews upon mankind.”

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