curare

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It causes toxic symptoms similar to those produced by curare, according to the experimental studies of Dujardin-Beaumetz and Rochenière.

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  1. noun A dark resinous extract obtained from several tropical American woody plants, especially Chondrodendron tomentosum or certain species of Strychnos, used as an arrow poison by some Indian peoples of South America.
  2. noun A purified preparation or alkaloid obtained from Chondrodendron tomentosum, used in medicine and surgery to relax skeletal muscles.
  3. noun A plant yielding curare.

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  • This was on a monkey hunt, hunting with curare-tipped darts. —  Phil Borges on endangered cultures
  • But her description was that of a vaporized form of curare, the dreaded poison of the jungle. —  069 - The Green Death
  • There's less than a dozen other passengers on board, so I'm probably safe now, unless the large black woman reading her Bible six rows up is waiting for me to doze off before slipping a curare-tipped knitting needle out of her purse. —  EQMM,September-October2007
  • "The poison was a mixture of drugs, among them stramonium, curare, and strychnine and some others When were they poisoned We've got that out of the small man," Doc said. —  152 - The Thing That Pursued
  • And these natives have some curare, one of the most deadly arrow poisons in existence Hm-m-m It would take fast work. —  133 - The Derelict of Skull Shoal
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  1. Portuguese or Spanish curaré, both of Cariban and Tupian origin.
 

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