noun

definition

(usually countable) A tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands, with poisonous secretions.

definition

A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows derived from the tree.

definition

A poison prepared from the climbing plant Strychnos tieute.

Examples of upas in a Sentence

It was generally understood that Gladstone intended to deal with three great Irish grievances the three branches of the Glad- upas tree the religious, agricultural and educa stones tional grievances.

In two sessions two branches of the upas tree hnd been summarily cut off.

His methods were doubtless known also to the French physiologist Magendie, who improved upon them, and who in 1809 published a research on the Upas Tieute and other strychnine-containing plants, in which he showed that their effects were due to an action on the spinal cord.

Like the terrain around the Upas tree No Man's Land was scourged, swept incessantly by fire and lethal poisons.

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