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upases

upases is the plural of upas.

Meaning of upas

Noun

upas (usually uncountable, plural upases)

  1. (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.1818, Thomas Love Peacock, chapter 11, in Nightmare Abbey, Hookham, published 1818
    Synonyms:
    bohun upas
  2. (usually) A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows and derived from the tree.
  3. (usually) A poison prepared from the climbing plant Strychnos tieute.
    Synonyms:
    upas tieute

Questions about upases

What is upases the plural of?
Upases is the plural of upas.

Words near upases in the dictionary

  1. uparmoured
  2. uparna
  3. uparnas
  4. upas
  5. Upasana
  6. upases
  7. upazila
  8. upazilas
  9. UPB
  10. upback
  11. upbacks

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