(upas tree)
1upas tree — noun see upas 1a …
2UPAS TREE — a poison yielding tree, at one time fabled to exhale such poison that it was destructive to all animal and vegetable life for miles round it …
3Upas — U pas ([=u] p[.a]s), n. [Malay p[=u]hn [=u]pas; p[=u]hn a tree + [=u]pas poison.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Bot.) A tree ({Antiaris toxicaria}) of the Breadfruit family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands. Its secretions are… …
4upas antiar — Upas U pas ([=u] p[.a]s), n. [Malay p[=u]hn [=u]pas; p[=u]hn a tree + [=u]pas poison.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Bot.) A tree ({Antiaris toxicaria}) of the Breadfruit family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands. Its secretions are… …
5Upas tieute — Upas U pas ([=u] p[.a]s), n. [Malay p[=u]hn [=u]pas; p[=u]hn a tree + [=u]pas poison.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Bot.) A tree ({Antiaris toxicaria}) of the Breadfruit family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands. Its secretions are… …
6upas — n. 1 (in full upas tree) a a Javanese tree, Antiaris toxicaria, yielding a milky sap used as arrow poison. b Mythol. a Javanese tree thought to be fatal to whatever came near it. c a pernicious influence, practice, etc. 2 the poisonous sap of… …
7Upas — Antiaris toxicaria …
8upas — /ˈjupəs/ (say yoohpuhs) noun 1. the poisonous milky sap of Antiaris toxicaria, a large tree of Java, used for arrow poison. 2. Also, upas tree. the tree. 3. a destructive or deadly power or influence. {Malay: poison} …
9upas — [yo͞o′pəs] n. [short for Malay pohon upas, lit., poison tree (< Javanese upas, plant poison)] 1. a tall Javanese tree (Antiaris toxicaria) of the mulberry family, whose whitish bark yields a poisonous, milky juice used as an arrow poison 2.… …
10upas — legendary poisonous tree of Java, 1783, from Malay upas poison, in pohun upas poison tree. The story appears to have originated in Dutch in 1770s …
