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woorara

woorara is the archaic form of curare.

Meaning of curare

Noun

curare (usually uncountable, plural curares)

  1. (usually) A plant, Strychnos toxifera, formerly used in arrow poisons in South America due to its D-tubocurarine content.
  2. (usually) Other South American plants with similar toxins that were also used in arrow poisons, mostly in the family Menispermaceae.
  3. (usually) A substance containing the alkaloid D-tubocurarine, used historically as a muscle relaxant during surgery.

Forms of woorara

pluralwooraras

Questions about woorara

What is woorara the archaic form of?
Woorara is the archaic form of curare.

Words near woorara in the dictionary

  1. woopy doo
  2. woopy-doo
  3. Wooragee
  4. Wooragurie
  5. woorali
  6. woorara
  7. wooraras
  8. woorari
  9. Woorarra East
  10. Woorarra West
  11. woordie major

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Adapted from Wiktionary: woorara (page history and authors); curare (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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