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woorari

woorari is the alternative 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.

Questions about woorari

What is woorari the alternative form of?
Woorari is the alternative form of curare.

Words near woorari in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: woorari (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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