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Upas
(gcide) | Upas \U"pas\ ([=u]"p[.a]s), n. [Malay p[=u]hn-[=u]pas; p[=u]hn a
tree + [=u]pas poison.]
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1. (Bot.) A tree (Antiaris toxicaria) of the Breadfruit
family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring
islands. Its secretions are poisonous, and it has been
fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is
deleterious. Called also bohun upas.
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2. A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands
for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is derived
from the upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute
is prepared from a climbing plant (Strychnos Tieute).
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maupassant
(encz) | Maupassant, |
bohun upas
(gcide) | Upas \U"pas\ ([=u]"p[.a]s), n. [Malay p[=u]hn-[=u]pas; p[=u]hn a
tree + [=u]pas poison.]
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1. (Bot.) A tree (Antiaris toxicaria) of the Breadfruit
family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring
islands. Its secretions are poisonous, and it has been
fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is
deleterious. Called also bohun upas.
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2. A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands
for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is derived
from the upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute
is prepared from a climbing plant (Strychnos Tieute).
[1913 Webster]Bohun upas \Bo"hun u"pas\
See Upas.
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Bohun upas
(gcide) | 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 poisonous, and it has been
fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is
deleterious. Called also bohun upas.
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2. A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands
for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is derived
from the upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute
is prepared from a climbing plant (Strychnos Tieute).
[1913 Webster]Bohun upas \Bo"hun u"pas\
See Upas.
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Pseudopupas
(gcide) | Pseudopupa \Pseu`do*pu"pa\, n.; pl. L. Pseudopup[ae], E.
Pseudopupas. [NL. See Pseudo-, and Pupa.] (Zool.)
A stage intermediate between the larva and pupa of bees and
certain other hymenopterous insects.
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Pupas
(gcide) | Pupa \Pu"pa\, n.; pl. L. Pup[ae], E. Pupas. [L. pupa girl.
doll, puppet, fem. of pupus. Cf. Puppet.]
1. (Zool.) Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis
which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago,
stage.
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Note: Among insects belonging to the higher orders, as the
Hymenoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, the pupa is inactive
and takes no food; in the lower orders it is active and
takes food, and differs little from the imago except in
the rudimentary state of the sexual organs, and of the
wings in those that have wings when adult. The term
pupa is sometimes applied to other invertebrates in
analogous stages of development.
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2. (Zool.) A genus of air-breathing land snails having an
elongated spiral shell.
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Coarctate pupa, or Obtected pupa, a pupa which is incased
in the dried-up skin of the larva, as in many Diptera.
Masked pupa, a pupa whose limbs are bound down and partly
concealed by a chitinous covering, as in Lepidoptera.
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upas antiar
(gcide) | 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 poisonous, and it has been
fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is
deleterious. Called also bohun upas.
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2. A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands
for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is derived
from the upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute
is prepared from a climbing plant (Strychnos Tieute).
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Upas tieute
(gcide) | Upas \U"pas\ ([=u]"p[.a]s), n. [Malay p[=u]hn-[=u]pas; p[=u]hn a
tree + [=u]pas poison.]
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1. (Bot.) A tree (Antiaris toxicaria) of the Breadfruit
family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring
islands. Its secretions are poisonous, and it has been
fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is
deleterious. Called also bohun upas.
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2. A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands
for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is derived
from the upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute
is prepared from a climbing plant (Strychnos Tieute).
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guy de maupassant
(wn) | Guy de Maupassant
n 1: French writer noted especially for his short stories
(1850-1893) [syn: Maupassant, Guy de Maupassant, {Henri
Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant}] |
henri rene albert guy de maupassant
(wn) | Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant
n 1: French writer noted especially for his short stories
(1850-1893) [syn: Maupassant, Guy de Maupassant, {Henri
Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant}] |
maupassant
(wn) | Maupassant
n 1: French writer noted especially for his short stories
(1850-1893) [syn: Maupassant, Guy de Maupassant, {Henri
Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant}] |
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