Curari

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  • n. Alternative form of curare.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A brown-black, shining, brittle, resinous substance, consisting of the aqueous extract of Strychnos toxifera, and various other species of the same genus, used by South American Indians for poisoning their arrows, especially the small arrows shot from the blow-gun.
    • Word Usage
    "The arrow poison, usually known as curari, was prepared from the juice of certain lianas or tree vines and was an article of intertribal trade over a great extent of territory."
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
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