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upas

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.21 in modern English

Syllables
upas
IPA
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands, with poisonous secretions.

Countable

noun

A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows and derived from the tree.

Uncountable

noun

A poison prepared from the climbing plant Strychnos tieute.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *upas Malay upasbor. English upas Borrowed from Malay upas.

Usage

Inflected Forms

upases (plural)

Synonyms

bohun upas upas tieute

Questions

What does upas mean?
A tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands, with poisonous secretions.
Where does upas come from?
Etymology tree Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *upas Malay upasbor. English upas Borrowed from Malay upas.

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